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40 Heller Innsbruck
| Issuer | Notgeld-Sammlerbund Innsbruck |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a wide panoramic vignette of the Maria-Theresien-Strasse with the Annasäule column in the middle ground and the snow-capped Nordkette range rising behind the urban streetscape. The scene is framed within a dark ornamental border with floral and foliage motifs in pink and green at each corner, while the denomination figures '40' and 'H' appear in white within dark roundels at the upper left and right respectively. The issuer's name is inscribed in large Gothic script along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK.' and the edition note '1. AUFLAGE' at the bottom corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 40 H Notgeld-Sammlerbund, Innsbruck 1. AUFLAGE WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this period occupies an odd corner of monetary history — these small emergency issues were produced after the war not because of genuine currency shortage, but because collectors had created demand for them. By 1920, many Tyrolean municipalities and organizations were printing Notgeld explicitly as a revenue stream, selling sets to philatelic and numismatic enthusiasts rather than distributing them through commerce. The Notgeld-Sammlerbund Innsbruck — a collectors' association, not a municipality or bank — makes the speculative nature of this issue unusually transparent.
Wagner was the dominant Innsbruck printer for such issues throughout the early 1920s.