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50 Heller Dross
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dross (Municipality of Dross) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground with the obverse design showing through as a ghosted underprint. Text is set in a Gothic blackletter typeface centred on the field; a small heading in Roman type at upper right identifies this as the 10th printing issued for the Notgeld exhibition. The validity and redemption conditions are stated in two lines below the main title, specifying personal presentation at the municipal treasury between 16 and 31 December 1920. |
| Reverse lettering | 10. Auflage (Notgeldausstellung). 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 village in Lower Austria's Krems-Land district — small enough that its 1920 Heller notgeld issue was almost certainly produced in a print run of only a few hundred. Austrian municipal notgeld of this period filled a genuine gap: postwar coin shortages left small communities without any practical medium for everyday exchange, and the central authorities were in no position to help quickly. Individual Gemeinden simply commissioned their own.
The Jaksch reference JPR0135.10-50 places this within the documented Lower Austrian notgeld catalog, though Dross issues are among the harder village series to locate — the municipality was too small to attract the philatelic collectors who drove larger print runs elsewhere.