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| Issuer | Notgeld-Sammlerbund Innsbruck |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 108 × 72 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | Tirol den Tirolern! KARNEID U. SCHLERN Heller 75 Heller Von Kufstein bis Salurn WAGNER, INNSBRUCK |
| Signature(s) | Anton Konzett (Der Obmann), Leopold Hepperger (Der Obm. Stellvertr.) and Zagforder (Der Säckelwart) |
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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.