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60 Heller Telfs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Telfs (Market Town of Telfs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and red, with side borders carrying repeating floral and numeral '60' ornamental motifs in red. The central vignette presents a detailed line-art view of a cobblestone stairway ascending toward a stone church portal with arched doorways and a wall in the background; a caption in script below the vignette reads 'Aufstieg zur Kirche'. Below the design, the edition and printer imprint are set in two separate inscriptions flanking the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Aufstieg zur Kirche 3. 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 Notgeld to address the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 60 Heller denomination sits in the middle tier of local emergency issues — small enough to circulate for everyday transactions, large enough that hoarding was less likely than with the 10 and 20 Heller pieces.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of Tyrolean municipal printing in this period, making them one of the more prolific regional printers of Austrian Notgeld.