1 Korona Bielsko

Bielsko issued local emergency money — Notgeld — in 1919 while the city's political future remained genuinely unresolved. The town sat at the center of the contested Cieszyn Silesia dispute between Czechoslovakia and the newly reconstituted Polish state, and the Paris Peace Conference had yet to draw the final line. Municipal scrip of this kind filled the gap left by the collapse of Austrian crown circulation and the absence of any agreed successor currency for the region.

The Czechoslovak-Polish border dispute over Cieszyn Silesia was ultimately submitted to the Council of Ambassadors, which divided the territory in July 1920 — Bielsko went to Poland.