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75 Heller Innsbruck

Issuer Notgeld-Sammlerbund Innsbruck
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.

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