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50 Heller Telfs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Telfs (Market Municipality of Telfs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Kassenschein über Fünfzig Heller Marktgem. Telfs hl Giltig bis 31. Jän. 1921 Bürgermeister: Vizebürgerm. Kassier: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is framed by a dashed outer border and divided into two sections. The left panel, set against a red background, displays the Tyrolean eagle coat of arms above the denomination '50 hl.' in bold gold numerals and Gothic lettering. The right section presents a detailed letterpress vignette of a traditional Tyrolean 'Stadl' (hay barn) with a characteristic open-lattice roof structure, captioned 'Stadl' at lower right. Below the main frame, the edition designation '5. AUFLAGE' appears at left and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK' at right. |
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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 after the First World War. The Wagner printing house in Innsbruck produced notes for numerous Tyrolean communities during this period, working quickly and cheaply to fill the gap left by a central monetary system that had effectively collapsed along with the Habsburg state.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically redeemable locally and had no legal standing beyond the issuing community's goodwill.