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50 Heller Tirol
| Issuer | Tiroler Landeskasse (Tyrol Provincial Treasury) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0411-50 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on an uncoloured paper ground and centres on an Austrian imperial double-headed eagle within a shield, set inside an oval guilloche cartouche flanked by denomination counters '50' on each side. Flowing lathe-work wave patterns fill the entire field, creating a dense engine-turned background. The issuer name in Fraktur script arches across the upper portion of the central cartouche, while '50 Heller 50' appears in stylised lettering along the lower border. |
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| Protection description | Dense engine-turned guilloche pattern incorporating repeated denomination numerals and issuer text as an underprint on the obverse; intricate lathe-work wave pattern covering the entire reverse. |
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The Tiroler Landeskasse issued these small-denomination Heller notes as an emergency measure following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when coin shortages made small change practically unavailable across much of the former Habsburg territory. Tyrol's situation was particularly acute — the province had been sliced by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in September 1919, with South Tyrol ceded to Italy, leaving the rump Austrian Tyrol economically dislocated and administratively scrambling.
Local treasury issues of this type were printed in quantity but circulated hard and discarded quickly once the Austrian Federal coinage supply stabilized. Survivors in clean condition are genuinely uncommon.