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30 Heller Imst
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Imst |
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| Value | 30 Hellers (0.3) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in plain brown on uncoloured paper without a tinted underprint, the reverse reproduces the same overall composition as the obverse: the 'STADTGEMEINDE IMST' heading at top, the central octagonal vignette with the Vogelhändler figure flanked by the two coats of arms and bird-filled foliage, and the denomination '30 HELLER' with the full redemption text and Bürgermeister facsimile signature below. The absence of the pink background underprint and the '3. Auflage' imprint distinguishes this side visually from the obverse. |
| Reverse 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 |
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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 These notes were never intended to circulate beyond the issuing town, and most were withdrawn and redeemed once federal small change returned to circulation in the early 1920s.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.