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50 Heller Telfs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Telfs (Market Municipality of Telfs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein über Fünfzig Heller Marktgem. Telfs Hl Giltig bis 31. Jän. 1921 Bürgermeister: Vizebürgerm. Kassier: |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Hl. 1. AUFLAGE WAGNER INNSBRUCK. |
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Telfs is a market town in the Inn Valley west of Innsbruck, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage following the war and the economic collapse of the former empire. The Wagner printing house in Innsbruck handled a substantial portion of Tyrolean municipal Notgeld during this period, producing runs for multiple communities simultaneously, which kept costs low but gave regional issues a family resemblance in paper stock and typography.
Heller-denominated Notgeld became legally obsolete relatively quickly as Austria stabilized and redenominated, so most surviving Telfs pieces were never redeemed — they were simply voided and forgotten.