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95 Heller Telfs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Telfs (Market Town of Telfs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central woodcut vignette of the Birlenberg pilgrimage church with its distinctive onion dome and tower set against an Alpine mountain backdrop, flanked on both sides by tall panels filled with elaborate red-printed foliate scroll underprint. The legend 'Birlenberg' appears in Gothic script at the upper left of the central vignette. The lower margin carries the edition designation '1. AUFLAGE' at left and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK.' at right. |
| Reverse lettering | Birlenberg 1. AUFLAGE WAGNER INNSBRUCK. |
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Telfs is a market town in the Inn Valley west of Innsbruck, and like hundreds of Austrian and German municipalities in the early 1920s it issued its own Notgeld to plug the chronic small-change shortage left by wartime metal hoarding and postwar monetary disruption. The 95 Heller denomination is deliberately awkward — not a round figure — which was common in Tirolean Notgeld issues where denominations were sometimes set to match specific local transaction needs or simply to discourage redemption arbitrage.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of regional Notgeld work during this period, serving numerous Tirolean communities that lacked access to Vienna-based printers.