Catalog
1 Korona Bielsko
| Issuer | Bielsko, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on green-blue underprint. The note is entirely typeset in Polish, with the full redemption text arranged in justified columns across the face. Two manuscript signatures appear side by side in the centre, representing the Mayor and the treasury official of the City of Bielsko, below an authorisation clause referencing the National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn. |
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| Reverse description | Red letterpress on green-blue underprint. The reverse carries the identical text to the obverse, rendered in German, serving as the bilingual counterpart for the German-speaking population of Bielsko. The typeset layout mirrors the face in its structure, with equivalent signature spaces for the Bürgermeister and treasury department. |
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Bielsko issued its own emergency currency in 1919 amid genuine political uncertainty — the town sat at the center of the disputed Cieszyn Silesia region, contested simultaneously by Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Inter-Allied Commission that arrived in February 1919 to manage the partition left local commerce in a precarious state, and municipal scrip of this kind filled the gap left by the absence of a stable recognized currency.
The denomination in korony rather than marks or Polish marka reflects Bielsko's position within the former Austrian partition, where Habsburg monetary habits persisted well past the empire's dissolution.