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50 Heller St. Johann in Tirol
| Issuer | Sankt Johann in Tirol, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gemeinde St. Johann in Tirol haftet für die Einlösung dieses Kassenscheines über Fünfzig Heller bis 31. Jänner 1921. Nachdruck verboten Der Bürgermeister: WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and orange on buff paper within a foliate border frame. A central oval vignette contains a three-quarter portrait of Josef Hager, the Tyrolean freedom fighter, set against a hatched background and surrounded by a laurel wreath. The Tyrolean eagle coat of arms appears at left and the St. Johann parish church coat of arms at right, both rendered in colour. The denomination '50' is repeated in large orange numerals at lower left and lower right, with the place name below the central vignette and two patriotic slogans in the upper register. |
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Sankt Johann in Tirol was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced into emergency paper issuance after the First World War stripped small towns of their coin supply. The Wagner firm in Innsbruck handled a substantial portion of the Tyrolean Notgeld trade, printing for multiple communities across the Inn Valley during 1919–1920 — which means Wagner-produced pieces from this region tend to share certain typographic and layout conventions, even across different issuing authorities.
The 50 Heller denomination sits at the upper end of the typical small-change Notgeld range, suggesting this note was intended to substitute for the heavier silver and nickel coinage that had vanished from circulation.