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20 Heller Mistelbach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADTGEMEINDE MISTELBACH GILTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 ZWANZIG HELLER DIE NACHAHMUNG WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT DER VIZE-BÜRGERMEISTER DER BÜRGERMEISTER |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress vignette occupying the full face of the note, with a panoramic townscape of Mistelbach set within an ornate foliate and grapevine frame. The town's church steeples and rooftops are rendered in fine line engraving across the upper portion. Below the townscape, a crowned civic coat of arms with mistletoe sprigs anchors the composition. Denomination numerals '20' are placed in plain circular cartouches at upper left and right, while two historiated text panels at the lower left and right record the founding of St. Elisabeth's Church in 1016 and the elevation of Mistelbach to town status in 1874. |
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Mistelbach is a market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing Heller-denomination emergency notes — Notgeld — during the acute small-coin shortage that gripped Austria from roughly 1916 onward. The wartime hoarding of metal coinage left everyday retail transactions almost impossible, and local authorities were left to fill the gap themselves.
The JPR0614b designation places this within the Jaksch-Pick regional Notgeld sequence for Lower Austria. The "b" suffix indicates a variant within the Mistelbach 20 Heller type — likely a paper stock, ink color, or minor typographic difference from the "a" issue, though both would have circulated concurrently in the same local area.
Mistelbach Notgeld of this period was not redeemable beyond the town's own commerce.