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30 Heller Imst
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Imst |
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| Value | 30 Hellers (0.3) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on a pink-red tinted paper, the obverse carries the municipal title 'STADTGEMEINDE IMST' in bold letterpress across the top banner. The central vignette, set within an octagonal frame, presents a full-length figure of the traditional Imst bird merchant (Vogelhändler) bearing a large cage on his back and a walking staff, surrounded by birds perched among foliage; the Austrian imperial eagle shield appears to the left and the Imst municipal coat of arms to the right. The lower register contains the denomination '30 HELLER' in large numerals flanked by the bilingual redemption text and a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, with the print edition note '3. Auflage' at the lower left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE IMST VOGEL HÄNDLER VON IMST GELDE VÖGEL TRAG ICH AUS GOLNE BRING ICH NACH HAUS KASSEN SCHEIN ÜBER DREISSIG HELLER BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 VON DER STADTGEMEINDE IMST EINAHMUNG WIRD VERFOLGT. BÜRGERMEISTER 30 HELLER 3. Auflage DEUTSCHE BUCHDRUCKEREI G.M.B.H., INNSBRUCK |
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Imst is a market town in the Tyrolean Inn valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own small-denomination Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Deutsche Buchdruckerei in Innsbruck handled a large volume of these local emergency issues across the Tyrol, which makes the printing unremarkable — but also reliable. These notes were never intended to circulate beyond the issuing town, and most were withdrawn and redeemed once federal small change returned to circulation in the early 1920s.
Surviving examples that show genuine wear are the more honest pieces; many were saved as novelties from the outset.