Catalog
10 Heller Mistelbach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and lilac Notgeld on a fine guilloche underprint, with the denomination 'Zehn Heller' rendered in ornate Gothic script at centre-left, accompanied by the validity clause 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft!'. A large serif underprint numeral '10' appears in the background at left, while a fine-line engraved vignette at right shows a cobblestone street scene framed by an archway, with a church steeple visible in the distance. Below the text, the facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister appear alongside the series letter 'C', all within a dashed rectangular border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach Zehn Heller Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft! Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: |
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Mistelbach is a market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it resorted to emergency Heller notes during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria-Hungary from around 1916 onward. The disappearance of small metal coinage — driven by wartime metal requisitioning and hoarding — forced local authorities at every level, from major cities down to small Gemeinden, to print their own fractional paper. These Notgeld issues were technically illegal under imperial monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.
The JPR0614c designation places this within the Jaksch catalog of Austrian municipal emergency money, a reference system still preferred by specialists over Pick for this particular material.