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10 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwaz (City of Schwaz, Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a salmon-pink ground and divided into two horizontal registers. The upper register bears large grey denomination numerals '10' at left and the abbreviation 'Hl' at right, flanking a central circular medallion with a relief-style vignette of multiple robed figures in a devotional scene. The lower register presents a stylised foliate band of edelweiss blossoms in green and white tones, beneath which a gothic-script inscription panel reads 'Stadtgemeinde Schwaz i. Tirol'; the note carries the edition imprint '5. Auflage' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Hl Stadtgemeinde Schwaz i. Tirol 5. AUFLAGE |
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Schwaz is a small Tyrolean town that had been one of the wealthiest cities in the Holy Roman Empire four centuries before this note was printed — its silver mines once funded Habsburg wars across Europe. By 1921, the town was issuing 10-Heller emergency scrip because the Austrian state couldn't keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. This is Notgeld in its most mundane form: a local stopgap, printed by a regional press, intended to last months.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled municipal printing work across the Tyrol during this period. The 1921 date places this at the tail end of the main Austrian Notgeld wave, as hyperinflationary pressure was already beginning to make low-denomination fractional notes obsolete almost immediately after issue.