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20 Heller Mistelbach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mistelbach |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0614c-20 |
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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 | Printed in green and violet on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a panoramic bird's-eye vignette of the town of Mistelbach with its church spires and rooftops stretching to the horizon, framed by an elaborate baroque cartouche with floral and grapevine motifs. Below the townscape, the municipal coat of arms — a crowned shield bearing a branch — is centrally placed within the cartouche. The denomination numeral '20' appears in circular panels at upper left and right, and two historical inscription panels in gothic script flank the lower portion of the design. |
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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.