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10 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwaz (Municipality of Schwaz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Hl Stadtgemeinde Schwaz i. Tirol 6. Auflage |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels framed by a dotted border. The left panel carries the redemption text in Gothic script reading 'Kassenschein über Zehn Heller welcher bis 31. Jänner 1921 von der'; the central panel displays the Schwaz mining arms — crossed hammers on a divided red-and-white shield — above the large denomination numeral '10 H' in bold grey; the right panel bears the issuer name 'Stadt Schwaz eingewechselt wird' and three facsimile signatures with their respective titles: Der Bürgermeister, Der Stadtkämmerer, and Der Geldwart. The printer imprint 'Wagner, Innsbruck' appears at lower right. |
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Schwaz, once the silver-mining capital of Europe and among the wealthiest towns on the continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, had by 1921 been reduced to issuing its own emergency paper in Heller denominations — a currency unit that the Austrian federal government would abolish entirely before the year was out. These Notgeld issues filled a genuine gap: post-war coin shortages left small transactions nearly impossible, and municipalities across the former Habsburg lands printed their own stopgap scrip by the hundreds.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of Tyrolean municipal Notgeld during this period. The JPR0983c suffix designates this as the third color or printing variant within the Schwaz 10 Heller grouping.