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1 Korona Bielsko
| Issuer | Bielsko, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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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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| Obverse lettering | JEDNA KORONA Ta miejska nota wymienioną bęndzie do dnia 31. Lipca 1919 na równą kwotę w ustawowej walucie Koronowej w Kasie Oszczędności Miasta Bielska. Bielsko, I Maja 1919, za gminę Miasta Bielska Burmistrz: Za zezwoleniem Rady Narodowej Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. za wydział skarbowy: (Translation: ONE CROWN This city note will be exchanged until July 31, 1919 for an equal amount in statutory Crown currency in the savings bank of the city of Bielsko. Bielsko, I May 1919, for the community of the City of Bielsko Mayor: With the permission of the National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn. for the tax 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.