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75 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadt Schwaz (City of Schwaz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and salmon tones with decorative foliate borders framing three panels. The central vignette presents a full-length figure of a medieval miner in armour, resting on a sword beside a Tyrolean coat of arms and crossed mining tools, set against a mountain landscape. The left panel carries the guarantee text in Gothic script pledging the city's assets for redemption, while the right panel states the denomination and redemption date. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large Gothic figures at lower left and lower right. The printer's imprint 'WANER INNSBRUCK' is printed in the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Stadt Schwaz in Tirol haftet mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen für die Einlösung des Kassenscheines von 75 Hellern und wird derselbe bis 31. Jänner 1921 eingewechselt. Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadtkämmerer: Der Geldwart: 75 75 WANER INNSBRUCK |
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Schwaz, a silver-mining town in the Tirol that had once been among the largest cities in the Habsburg lands, issued this Notgeld during the catastrophic inflation that followed Austria's post-war economic collapse. These small municipal emergency notes proliferated across Austria and Germany between 1919 and 1922 precisely because the central government could not keep denominations in circulation fast enough to match currency devaluation. Schwaz's series was printed by Waner in Innsbruck, a regional firm that handled a substantial volume of Tirolean Notgeld during this period.
The 75 Heller denomination is an odd one — not a round figure, which suggests it was calculated to fill a specific gap in local transactional change rather than issued as part of a tidy set.