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50 Heller Imst
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Imst (Municipality of Imst) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown-orange on cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer's title 'STADTGEMEINDE IMST' in bold letterpress across the top. The central vignette shows a traditional Tyrolean bird-seller (Vogelhändler) standing before a panoramic alpine landscape with a church steeple and mountain backdrop, framed by a chamfered rectangular border. The denomination '50 HELLER' appears in large bold type in flanking boxes on both left and right, with the Austrian eagle coat of arms at lower left and the Imst municipal shield at lower right; the Mayor's facsimile signature appears above the legend 'BÜRGERMEISTER', and the imprint of Deutsche Buchdruckerei G.m.b.H., Innsbruck is noted at the foot along with '3. Auflage' (3rd printing). |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a lighter brown on cream paper and reproduces the same overall layout as the obverse but without the orange underprint or printer's imprint at the foot. The central vignette again shows the Tyrolean bird-seller in an alpine landscape with church steeple, flanked by bold '50 HELLER' denomination panels; the Austrian eagle shield appears at lower left and the Imst municipal arms at lower right, with the Mayor's facsimile signature and 'BÜRGERMEISTER' caption below. |
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One of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld issues produced during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War, this 50 Heller note from Imst was printed by Deutsche Buchdruckerei in Innsbruck — a local commercial printer pressed into emergency currency production, not a security press. The heller denominations were particularly necessary: small coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely by 1919, hoarded or melted, leaving communities across Tirol unable to make change for basic transactions.
Imst's municipal series was practical rather than collectible, unlike the decorative Notgeld flooding out of German towns simultaneously. The JPR0405c suffix distinguishes this from other heller values in the same issue.