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50 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Imst (Municipality of Imst) |
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| Value | 50 Heller (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a traditional bird dealer (Vogelhändler von Imst) carrying a large birdcage on his back, set against a panoramic landscape with a church steeple and Alpine mountains in the background. Denomination panels reading 'HELLER 50 HELLER' flank the vignette on left and right. Two heraldic coats of arms appear at lower left and lower right, with the issuer's title 'STADTGEMEINDE IMST' in bold lettering across the top. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the same design as the obverse, with the central vignette of the Vogelhändler von Imst, flanking denomination panels, heraldic shields at lower corners, and the issuer's title across the top. |
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Imst is a market town in Tyrolean Austria, and this Heller note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued after 1914, when the Austro-Hungarian government's wartime coin hoarding left small communities without any practical means of making change. The Stadtgemeinde took matters into its own hands, as hundreds of Austrian and German municipalities did — printing low-denomination scrip backed by nothing more than local trust and administrative authority.
The JPR0405b designation suggests a second type variant within the Imst series, worth checking against the first type for differences in ink color, serial numbering, or overprint details.