Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Heller Schwödiau
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Schwödiau |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 25 Hellers (0.25) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface with faint show-through of the obverse letterpress impression visible against the light, and narrow vertical ruled border strips at the right edge. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Josef Schilhuber |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Schwödiau — known today as Svidinov, a village in what is now the Czech Republic — issued this Heller notgeld as part of the broader Austrian municipal emergency currency wave that followed the acute coin shortage of 1916–1918. Small-denomination metal coins effectively vanished from circulation as the war consumed copper and nickel, forcing thousands of parishes, market towns, and rural communes to print their own fractional paper. Schwödiau was among the smallest and most obscure of these issuers.
Josef Schilhuber's signature as issuing authority is the only firm anchor this note has to a specific local official — the commune itself left almost no paper trail in numismatic literature.