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20 Heller Dross
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dross (Municipality of Dross) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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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 VERMOGEN VICEBURGERMEISTER BURGERMEISTER GEM.RAT |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on cream paper and displays text in a combination of Fraktur and Roman scripts against a ghost watermark impression of the obverse design. The heading '10. Auflage (Notgeldausstellung).' appears at the top, followed by the full title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Droß über 20 Heller.' in large Fraktur lettering. Validity and redemption conditions are stated below, specifying acceptance at the municipal treasury between 16 and 31 December 1920. |
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Dross is a small wine-growing village in the Krems district of Lower Austria, and like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These local issues were authorized under a broader framework that allowed Gemeinden to print their own fractional currency, with redemption theoretically guaranteed by the issuing municipality.
The designer credit to Rohrhofer is notable — locally designed Notgeld was common, but named designers at the village level are not always recorded. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0135.10-2 places this within the documented Lower Austrian municipal series.