30 Heller Imst

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 These notes were never intended to circulate beyond the issuing town, and most were withdrawn and redeemed once federal small change returned to circulation in the early 1920s.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.