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90 Heller Schwaz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwaz (City of Schwaz) |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | A large Tyrolean eagle with wings spread wide dominates the upper centre of the note, perched above a ribbon banner reading 'Tirol deutsch & ungeteilt!' in Gothic lettering. Two text panels in Gothic script flank the eagle: the left panel states the guarantee of the City of Schwaz in Tirol with its assets, and the right panel specifies redemption of the note for 90 Heller until 31 January 1921. The denomination '90' appears in large numerals at upper left and right corners within a decorative green foliate border, and facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Stadtkämmerer, and Geldwart appear at lower right. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER / INNSBRUCK' is at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Stadt Schwaz in Tirol haftet mit ihrem Vermögen für die Einlösung dieses Scheines über 90 Heller bis 31. Jänner 1921. Tirol deutsch & ungeteilt! Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadtkämmerer: Der Geldwart: WAGNER / INNSBRUCK |
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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, was issuing ninety-heller emergency scrip by 1920 — a stark measure of how completely that industrial fortune had evaporated. This note belongs to the vast Austrian Notgeld wave that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left municipal authorities scrambling to compensate for chronic coin shortages.
Wagner of Innsbruck was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is worth knowing when assessing printing quality across the series.