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75 Heller St. Johann in Tirol

Issuer Municipality of Sankt Johann in Tirol
Year 1920
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In circulation to 31 January 1921
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Reverse description Three-panel composition across the full width of the note: at left, a vignette of Kufstein Fortress on its rocky promontory captioned "Von Kufstein"; at centre, a pair of Tyrolean figures in regional dress — a woman and a man — clasping hands before an Alpine landscape; at right, a vignette of Salurn Castle ruins captioned "bis Salurn!". Denomination numerals "75" appear in large rust-coloured roundels at lower left and lower right. At the foot of the central panel, a four-line patriotic verse is set in Kurrent script, flanked by the inscriptions "St. Johann" and "in Tirol." at lower left and right respectively. The edition notation "2. Auflage" (second printing) appears vertically along the left margin.
Reverse lettering Von Kufstein
bis Salurn!
St. Johann
in Tirol.
2. Auflage
Stolz und siegreich wirst du wieder wehen
Deutsches Banner, über unsre Welt,
Wenn wir Deutsche nur zusammen stehen
Einig von der Etsch bis an den Belt!
(Translation: You will blow proud and victorious again, German banner, over our world, If only we Germans stand together, United from the Adige to the Belt!)
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St. Johann in Tirol issued these Heller notes in 1920 as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities following the economic collapse after World War I. The central government in Vienna was simply unable to supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving, so hundreds of towns — St. Johann among them — commissioned their own emergency scrip. Wagner of Innsbruck handled production for numerous Tyrolean communities during this period, which gives the series a regional coherence unusual in Austrian Notgeld more broadly.

The JPR0898b designation suggests multiple varieties exist for St. Johann's 75 Heller issue — likely differing in signature, date, or overprint detail rather than a fundamental redesign.

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