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50 Heller Mistelbach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries the issuer's title and denomination in ornate Gothic script, with an anti-counterfeiting warning below. To the right, a tall vignette rendered in fine line engraving shows a column monument with a standing figure at its summit, surrounded by swirling foliage and figures at the base. The lower margin bears facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and the Bürgermeister, with a large manuscript letter 'C' serving as a series designation. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 hadmar von Mistelbach und seine Gattin Elisabeth erbauen die Kirche St. Elisabeth a. 1016 Kaiser Franz Josef I. erhebt den Markt Mistelbachs zur Stadt a. 1874 |
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Mistelbach is a market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The municipal authority stepped in as issuer simply because no one else would. These were legal in the loosest sense — tolerated rather than sanctioned by the central government, which was too financially exhausted after the collapse of the Habsburg state to enforce uniformity.
The Jaksch cataloguing places this as the "c" variant, indicating at least two earlier emission types preceded it within the same series.