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90 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwaz (City of Schwaz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels within an ornamental foliage border in olive green and salmon tones. The central panel presents a full-length vignette of a medieval knight in armour resting on his sword, with a mining hammer and pick crossed at his feet and the Tyrolean red-white-red shield below him. The left panel carries a vignette of Kufstein Fortress with the caption 'Von Kufstein', and the right panel shows a hilltop castle with the caption 'bis Salurn'; the denomination '90' is rendered in large stylized numerals at the lower left and right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | Wenn Ritter Jürgen heute bei uns weilt Tirol von Kufstein bis Salurn wär ungeteilt Von Kufstein bis Salurn |
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Schwaz, once the most important silver-mining town in Europe, had exhausted both its mines and its economic significance long before 1920. This 90 Heller note belongs to the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg Empire — municipal authorities across the former crownlands were left scrambling to plug a catastrophic small-change shortage as the new Republic's currency infrastructure took time to establish. Wagner in Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of Tyrolean Notgeld during this period, which kept production costs low but also meant the notes circulated alongside dozens of near-identical issues from neighboring towns.