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30 Heller St. Johann in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Johann in Tirol (Municipality of St. Johann in Tirol) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 30h Kassenschein über Dreißig Heller der Gemd. St. Johann in Tirol. Giltig bis 28. Feber 1921 Der Bürgermeister: Josef Hofinger WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. Stolz und siegreich wirst du wieder wehen Deutsches Banner, über unsre Welt, Wenn wir Deutsche nur zusammen stehen Einig von der Etsch bis an den Belt! (Translation: 30h Voucher for Thirty Heller of the Municipality of St. Johann in Tyrol. Valid until 28 February 1921. The Mayor: Josef Hofinger. Proudly and victoriously you will wave again, German banner, over our world, when we Germans only stand together, united from the Adige to the Belt!) |
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| Reverse lettering | ALM-HÜTTE St. Johann in Tirol. 30 30 4. AUFLAGE |
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St. Johann in Tirol was among hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced to print their own small-denomination emergency money after the First World War left the national currency system unable to supply adequate coin. These Notgeld issues filled a genuine gap — metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation, hoarded or consumed by wartime metal demands, and the Austrian state was in no position to remedy this quickly. Wagner in Innsbruck handled the printing for numerous Tyrolean communes during this period, which gives the series a regional coherence rarely found in German Notgeld of the same years.
Josef Hofinger's signature as Bürgermeister ties the note to a specific moment of local administrative responsibility — small-town officials suddenly accountable for monetary instruments.