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10 Heller Dross
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dross (Municipality of Dross) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress Notgeld voucher printed on cream paper, with a central vignette of the Dross municipal building rendered in fine line illustration, flanked on each side by cartouche panels bearing the numeral '10' in bold typeface. Decorative foliate and scroll ornaments frame the upper corners, while the issuer title 'GUTSCHEIN DER GMD. DROSS N.Ö.' arcs across the top. Below the vignette, a three-line guarantee text in stylised lettering reads that the municipality pledges its entire assets for redemption, with three manuscript signatures of municipal officials — Vicebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat — appearing along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10. Auflage (Notgeldausstellung). Gutschein der Gemeinde Droß über 10 Heller. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösetermin 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 gegen persönliche Vorweisung an der Gemeindekasse. |
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Dross is a small wine-growing village in the Krems district of Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The Gemeinde series from this region tends to attract collectors precisely because each issuer commissioned locally meaningful artwork rather than generic typography.
Rohrhofer's design credit is unusual — most village-level Notgeld from Lower Austria went unsigned or used regional print shops without individual attribution. Worth noting for provenance purposes.