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75 Heller Telfs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Telfs (Market Town of Telfs) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central woodcut vignette of a rustic Tyrolean mill building — the 'Jackn Mühle' — rendered in fine black line engraving on a plain cream ground, enclosed within a rectangular border. Flanking the central scene are vertical side panels in red and dark brown with stylised floral and foliate ornaments and the numeral '75' repeated at the corners. The printer's imprint and edition number appear along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | 3. Auflage (3rd printing) - as illustrated |
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Telfs is a market town in the Inn Valley west of Innsbruck, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that persisted long after the armistice. The 75 Heller denomination sits in the middle range of what local authorities typically needed to keep market transactions functional — smaller than a Krone note, larger than the coins that had simply vanished from circulation.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of Tyrolean municipal Notgeld during this period, supplying presses to dozens of valley communities that lacked any other practical option.