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40 Heller Igls
| Issuer | Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein über Vierzig Heller 40 H Die Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol, haftet für die Einlösung dieses Scheines bis 31. Dezember 1920 Der Kassier Der Kassenrat Der Bürgermeister 1. Auflage |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and red on olive-tan paper, enclosed within a decorative border of stylised foliate and guilloche ornaments. A central oval vignette presents a landscape view of the Heiligwasser pilgrimage site near Igls, with alpine farm buildings, conifers, and a chapel rendered in fine line engraving; the caption 'HEILIG WASSER' appears below the vignette. The denomination numerals '4' and '0' flank the vignette at the upper corners, and a lower cartouche in Gothic script carries the issuer's name; the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' appears at the lower left margin. |
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Igls is a small resort village above Innsbruck, and like hundreds of Austrian communes during the 1918–1921 Kleingeldersatz period, its Kurgemeinde issued notgeld to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation. The Wagner printing house in Innsbruck handled a significant volume of these Tyrolean local issues, and the physical quality tends to be more consistent than notgeld produced by smaller provincial printers elsewhere in Austria.
The Kurgemeinde designation — a spa or health-resort administrative body — is the detail worth noting. Igls was functioning as a tourist and convalescent destination even during the war's aftermath, which gives this issuer a slightly different administrative character than a standard municipal Gemeinde.