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20 Heller Mistlberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mistlberg (Municipality of Mistlberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld voucher with an ornate decorative border of scrollwork, floral motifs, and stylized foliage. A central vignette presents a landscape view of the Breisinghof estate in Mistlberg, rendered with trees in the foreground and farm buildings set against a wooded hillside. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in each upper corner beneath a winged cherub head at the top centre, with the issuer inscription in Gothic script along the lower portion of the note; printer credits 'Ges. Walt Linz' and 'Heese Linz' appear at the lower left and right margins respectively. |
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| Signature(s) | Huber (Bürgermeister) |
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Mistlberg is a tiny rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria-Hungary's successor states after 1918, when small coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation due to metal hoarding and postwar economic disruption. Municipalities of even the most modest size were authorized — or simply compelled by necessity — to print their own emergency fractional currency.
Heese of Linz handled production, a regional printer that fulfilled a large number of these local commissions across Upper Austria. The single mayoral signature, Huber, would have carried the full legal weight of the commune's backing — which, in a village of this scale, meant very little beyond local acceptance.