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20 Heller Mistelbach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green on cream paper notgeld issued by the Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach, with the denomination numeral '20' in bold gothic type within ornamental cartouches at upper left and right. A central vignette presents a wayside shrine or column monument set within a landscape of trees and swirling clouds, rendered in fine line engraving. Flanking vertical panels carry anti-counterfeiting warning text in rotated gothic script, and two signature boxes in the lower corners bear the manuscript facsimile signatures of the Vize-Bürgermeister and the Bürgermeister respectively, each with a violet stamp. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 20 Hadmar von Mistelbach und seine Gattin Elisabeth erbauen die Kirche St. x Elisabeth x 1016 Kaiser Franz Josef I. erhebt idens Markt Mistelbachs zur Stadt x 1874 |
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Mistelbach is a market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded the Austrian provinces between 1914 and roughly 1922 as small change simply vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or absorbed by wartime demand. Municipal authorities, merchants, and even private associations stepped in to fill the gap, issuing their own emergency pfennig-denomination scrip backed by little more than local trust.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR0614c suffix indicates this is one of at least three distinct variants in the Mistelbach series, differentiated typically by color, paper batch, or minor typographic changes — distinctions that matter considerably to collectors of Austrian Kleingeldersatz.