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50 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwaz (City of Schwaz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Hl. Stadtgemeinde Schwaz Kassenschein über 50 Heller Giltig bis 31./1.21. Fuggerhaus Nachdruck verboten. Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadtkämmerer: Der Geldwart: WAGNER, INNSBRUCK |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown, ochre, and olive-green tones, with the central design an oval vignette of the courtyard of Schloss Tratzberg, a Renaissance castle near Schwaz, surrounded by decorative pine branch motifs. The Tyrolean eagle coat of arms appears at upper left and the mining arms of Schwaz — crossed hammers — at upper right. A lower panel in dark brown carries the denomination '50' at left, the inscription 'Stadt Schwaz i. Tirol' in Gothic lettering at centre, and 'Hl' at right; the edition note '4 AUFLAGE' appears at lower left. |
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Schwaz, once the silver-mining capital of Europe and arguably the wealthiest town in the Habsburg world during the sixteenth century, had by 1920 been reduced to issuing its own emergency paper in Heller denominations — a humiliation the town shared with hundreds of Austrian municipalities scrambling to cover a catastrophic coin shortage in the early postwar years. These Notgeld issues were printed locally by Wagner in Innsbruck rather than through any central authority, which accounts for the considerable variation in paper quality and ink density seen across surviving examples of the Schwaz series.