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75 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwaz (Town of Schwaz) |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Value | 75 Hellers (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Polychrome letterpress vignette on an orange ground, flanked by two figures in traditional Tyrolean dress — a woman at left in dirndl with apron and a man at right in miner's attire with top hat and walking stick. Between them rises a view of Freundsberg Castle with alpine peaks in the background. At centre bottom, the municipal coat of arms of Schwaz bearing crossed hammers is set within a ribbon cartouche, and the denomination '75 H.' appears in large gothic numerals at the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 H. Schwaz in Tirol |
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Schwaz, in the Tyrolean Inn Valley, had been one of the wealthiest mining towns in Europe during the sixteenth century — its silver mines briefly made it the second-largest German-speaking city after Vienna. By 1920, it was issuing 75-Heller Notgeld to cover a shortage of small change that the Vienna mint simply could not address, a problem endemic across Austrian municipalities in the immediate postwar years.
Wagner in Innsbruck handled a large share of Tyrolean municipal emergency currency during this period, and the print quality reflects a competent regional firm working at volume under difficult paper supply conditions.