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75 Heller Innsbruck
| Issuer | Notgeld-Sammlerbund Innsbruck |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 75 Hellers (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Tripartite layout with the denomination '75 H' in large Gothic numerals at upper left and right. The central vignette presents a crowned Tyrolean eagle standing on a rocky alpine outcrop with a mountain landscape behind it, flanked by the Innsbruck city arms at the base. The left panel contains a wreath-framed text cartouche with redemption terms, while the right panel bears a wreath-framed cartouche with the place and date of issue alongside three manuscript signatures. The arms of Bozen and Meran appear at lower left and lower right respectively, and the note is marked '2. AUFLAGE' at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical zones. At left, a full-length figure of a woman in traditional Tyrolean folk costume holds a bouquet of alpine flowers. At right, a male figure in Tyrolean dress plays a side drum. The central panel carries an upper vignette of Karneid castle with the Schlern massif in the background, captioned 'KARNEID U. SCHLERN', beneath which a denomination tablet reads '75 HELLER 75' with floral ornaments. A bold script legend curves along the lower border. The serial number appears in a small cartouche at the bottom centre, and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' is visible at the lower right. |
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The Notgeld-Sammlerbund Innsbruck was not a municipality or bank but a collectors' association — one that issued its own notgeld specifically for the collector market rather than out of any genuine monetary necessity. By 1920, Austrian notgeld had become a phenomenon unto itself, with towns, guilds, and private clubs producing small-denomination notes primarily as tradeable novelties, often in limited series. The Sammlerbund model took this logic to its endpoint: the issuer was the collecting community itself.
Three named signatories — the chairman, deputy chairman, and treasurer — lend the piece an air of formal institutional authority that somewhat overstates the organization's standing.