10 Heller Mistelbach

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.