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20 Heller Dross
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dross (Municipality of Dross) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0135.08-2 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GMD. DROSS N.Ö. 20 HELLER DIE GEMEINDE HAFTET FUER DIE EINLOESUNG DIESES SCHEINES MIT IHREM GANZEN VERMOEGEN. VICEBURGERMEISTER: BURGERMEISTER: GEM.RAT. |
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| Reverse lettering | 8. Auflage (Schweiz). Gutschein der Gemeinde Droß über 20 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 after the First World War, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage. The Heller denominations were the smallest and most practically necessary, used for everyday transactions at a time when the collapsing Habsburg economy had made even low-value coins vanish from circulation.
Printed in Switzerland despite the note's purely local purpose — an arrangement common among Austrian Gemeinden that lacked access to domestic printing capacity — this piece carries a designer credit to Rohrhoper, about whom little has been documented in the Notgeld literature.