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50 Heller Dross
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dross (Municipality of Dross) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse bears the heading GUTSCHEIN DER GMD. DROSS N.Ö. in large lettering across the top, flanked by decorative Art Nouveau scrollwork. The central vignette presents a line-engraved view of a Baroque manor or castle complex, attributed to Rohrhof, set within an arched frame; the denomination 50 appears in bold numerals on cartouches to the left and right, each inscribed HELLER. The lower portion carries a guarantee text in Gothic script, with three manuscript signatures above the titles VICEBÜRGERMEISTER, BÜRGERMEISTER, and GEM.-RAT. |
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| Reverse lettering | 9. Auflage (Italien). Gutschein der Gemeinde Droß über 50 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 similarly sized Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation after the First World War. The Habsburg monetary system had collapsed, copper and nickel had long been redirected to the war effort, and the new Republic of Austria inherited a fractional currency vacuum that no central authority was moving quickly to fill.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0135.09 places this squarely within the documented Lower Austrian municipal series. Village-level Notgeld from this period was typically produced in small print runs by regional printers and redeemed locally — survivorship is uneven, and rural communes like Dross are underrepresented in most collections outside Austria.