10 Heller Mistelbach

Mistelbach is a market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it resorted to issuing its own small-denomination emergency paper during WWI when hoarding stripped metal coinage from circulation almost entirely. These Heller notes — collectively termed Notgeld — were authorized under Austrian wartime provisions and typically printed locally or through regional stationers, with quality varying accordingly.

The JPR prefix in Jaksch cataloguing distinguishes Austrian municipal issues from the broader Pick system. The 10 Heller denomination was among the most heavily used in everyday transactions, meaning survivors in clean condition are proportionally less common than higher denominations that saw less handling.