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10 Heller Drosendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Drosendorf (Municipality of Drosendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on tan paper in a tripartite layout. A central vignette presents a woodcut-style view of Drosendorf castle ruins amid foliage, flanked on each side by ornate guilloche panels enclosing the numeral '10' at lower left and right. Below the vignette, the town name and validity inscription are rendered in decorative blackletter script. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a border of dotted and ruled lines enclosing the issuer's name 'Drosendorf' in large blackletter type at upper left within a cartouche, and the denomination numeral '10' in a dotted box at upper right. A vignette of the Rathaus (town hall) occupies the lower left, accompanied by small heraldic vignettes of the town gate and municipal eagle at the lower corners; the denomination in calligraphic script 'Zehn Heller' and the guarantee text, date, anti-counterfeiting notice, and facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appear in the central field. |
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Drosendorf is a walled medieval town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and its municipal notgeld issue of 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian emergency currency — the period when chronic small-coin shortages, already severe during the war, continued well into the republic's first years. Municipal bodies at this scale rarely had access to professional printers, and the locally produced nature of this piece is typically evident in the typography and registration.
The Jaksc reference places it firmly in the documented Austrian notgeld corpus, though issues from small Waldviertel communes remain underrepresented in major collections.