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50 Heller Drosendorf
| Issuer | Municipality of Drosendorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Drosendorf a.d. Thaya N.-Ö. Gültig bis zur Bekanntgabe. 50 |
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| Signature(s) | L. Kleiler (Bürgermeister) |
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Drosendorf is a walled medieval town in Lower Austria's Thaya valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These locally-issued emergency notes filled a gap the central authorities in Vienna simply could not address quickly enough — small change had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919.
F. Prietzel's printing address in the Schlagergasse suggests a small Viennese trade printer, the kind typically contracted for stationery and commercial jobwork rather than currency. The Bürgermeister's signature gave the issue whatever local authority it carried.