20 Heller Mistelbach

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.