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60 Heller Innsbruck, Prv. Ladiner Verein
| Issuer | Ladiner Verein (Ladin Association), Innsbruck |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided letterpress note printed in dark brown on cream paper, with a scalloped dot-and-dash border framing the entire design. The left portion bears the large ornate numeral '60' with an interior guilloche-style line pattern, above the denomination legend 'HELLER'. To the right, a detailed vignette presents a Tyrolean Alpine village scene identified as 'GRÖDEN', with a church steeple, conifer trees, and dramatic Dolomite rock formations in the background; the artist's signature 'GUSTL DA TLUSÖLL' appears within the vignette. The issuer's redemption text is inscribed in the upper left, and the Obmann's manuscript signature appears at lower right alongside the validity date. |
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| Obverse lettering | GRÖDEN GUSTL DA TLUSÖLL DER LADINER VEREIN LÖST DIESEN GUTSCHEIN FÜR 60 HELLER BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 EIN DER OBMANN: (?) |
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The Ladiner Verein was a cultural association founded in Innsbruck to represent the Ladin-speaking minority of the South Tyrol and Dolomite valleys — a community that had just been handed from Austria to Italy under the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This note is emergency scrip, issued in 1920 during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse, and its very existence documents a small ethnic organization taking on quasi-monetary functions simply to keep local exchange functional.
The designer credit "Gustl da Tlusöll" is a Ladin-language pseudonym, the surname meaning "from Tlusel" — a deliberate assertion of linguistic identity on a piece of paper most people would have treated as disposable.