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| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hall in Tirol |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 80 Heller Die Stadtgemeinde Hall in Tirol haftet für die Einlösung des Scheines bis 30. Novemb. 1920. Hall, 30. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadtkämmerer: Pokale der Stubengesellschaft in Hall Gegr. 1566 1. AUFLAGE WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. |
| Reverse description | A full-width coloured letterpress vignette occupies the left portion of the reverse, presenting a street view of the historic Stubengesellschaft building on the upper town square of Hall in Tirol, with a Gothic church tower visible to the right and mountains in the background. In the upper right corner, a decorative heraldic rose cartouche frames the town name 'Hall i. Tirol.' in Gothic script, below which the denomination '80 Hl.' is printed in large numerals within a vertical panel. A caption in German blackletter runs along the lower border, with the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK.' at lower left. |
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Hall in Tirol was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced into emergency paper money after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left coin supplies essentially nonexistent. These locally issued Heller notes — collectively known as Notgeld — were produced in enormous variety across Tyrol between 1919 and 1921, with individual towns commissioning their own designs from regional printers. Wagner in Innsbruck handled a significant portion of the Tyrolean output during this period.
The 80 Heller denomination is among the more unusual face values in the Austrian municipal series, chosen to cover specific transactional gaps rather than follow any standard progression.