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95 Heller Telfs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Telfs (Market Town of Telfs, Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three panels by bold black borders. The left and right panels each bear the denomination numeral '95' in large black digits over a red hexagonal underprint, set within scrollwork corner ornaments on a hatched ground. The central panel carries a woodcut-style vignette of a hanging sheaf of grain or foliage tied with a ribbon bow at the top. Below the panels, the left column bears the denomination and issuing authority inscription in Gothic blackletter script, while the right column carries the validity date and three manuscript signatures for Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Kassier. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is composed of three vertical panels with the outer two filled with richly detailed Art Nouveau acanthus and floral scrollwork in brown and pink on a horizontally lined ground. The central panel presents a woodcut-style architectural vignette of a medieval town gate and street scene with multi-storey timbered buildings, signed 'Wendlhof' in the upper right corner. Below the composition, the printer's imprint and edition number appear in two lines across the full width of the note. |
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Telfs is a market town in the Inn valley west of Innsbruck, and this note is a product of the acute coin shortage that paralyzed small commerce across Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. Municipalities, savings banks, and even private businesses printed their own Notgeld to keep transactions moving at the local level — Telfs was one of hundreds of Tyrolean communities that did so between 1919 and 1921.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of these regional emergency issues, which gives the print quality a consistency you don't always find in smaller-town Notgeld. The designer credit to Wendlhof is unusual enough to note — most comparable issues from the period went uncredited.