50 Heller Dross

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.