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75 Heller St. Johann in Tirol
| Issuer | Municipality of Sankt Johann in Tirol |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Left half occupied by a landscape vignette of the town of St. Johann in Tirol set against an Alpine mountain backdrop, with a church steeple visible in the middle ground and a heraldic town coat of arms below; the vignette is framed by a decorative foliate border in rust and brown tones. Right half carries the denomination "75 Hl." at upper right in bold Gothic script, followed by the full redemption text in Kurrent hand, a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, and the printer's imprint "Wagner, Innsbruck" at the lower right margin. |
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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. |
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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.