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5 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wörgl (Market Town of Wörgl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Heller 5 marktgemeinde Wörgl, Tirol 4. AUFLAGE zweimal fünf ist zehn 10h. (Translation: 5 Heller 5 / Market Town / Wörgl, Tyrol / 4th Edition / twice five is ten 10h.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large block of Gothic blackletter text carrying the redemption notice, set against a stippled paper background with a red hatched underprint. The denomination '5 Heller 5' appears at the top in the same bold Gothic script as the obverse. Below the main text, the title 'Der Bürgermeister' precedes a handwritten mayoral signature, and 'Der 1. Vizebürgermeister' introduces a second handwritten signature of the deputy mayor. A vertical marginal inscription repeats at left, and the printer's imprint 'Wagner Innsbruck' appears vertically along the left margin. |
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Wörgl is better known for its 1932 "stamp scrip" experiment — Silvio Gesell's demurrage currency that made international headlines — but this 1920 Heller note predates all of that by over a decade. It belongs instead to the vast wave of Austrian municipal notgeld issued in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, when small coin had effectively vanished from circulation and towns across the former empire printed their own fractional substitutes to keep local commerce moving.
Wagner of Innsbruck was the natural choice for Tyrolean municipalities of this size; the firm handled a considerable volume of regional emergency issues in this period.