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50 Heller Imst
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Imst (Municipality of Imst) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse repeats the same compositional layout as the obverse but without the printer's imprint or edition line at the foot. The central vignette again shows the Imst bird-seller against the alpine town panorama, flanked by identical denomination panels and the two municipal arms. The redemption text below the vignette and the facsimile mayoral signature at lower right are reproduced in the same letterpress style. |
| Reverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE IMST HELLER 50 HELLER VOGEL- VON HÄNDLER IMST KASSENSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG HELLER DER BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 VON DER STADTGEMEINDE IMST EINGELÖST WIRD. NACHAHM.. UNG WIRD VERFOLGT. BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Imst is a market town in the Tyrolean Inn valley, and this note is one of hundreds of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria in 1920 as small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation. The federal government never solved the fractional coin shortage after the war, forcing individual municipalities to paper over the gap themselves — literally. Deutsche Buchdruckerei in Innsbruck handled a significant volume of these local Tyrolean emergency issues, and the notes were typically printed in bulk for multiple municipalities from the same press run.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch-Pick regional Notgeld catalog, which documented over a thousand Austrian municipal issues from this period.