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1 Korona Lwow
| Issuer | Kasa Gminy Miasta Lwowa (City of Lwów Municipal Treasury) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 138 × 77 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | JEDNA KORONA Kasa Gminy Miasta Lwowa Ser. XVIII Nr. 831 1914. (Translation: One Crown / Treasury of the City of Lwów Municipality) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on a blue and red guilloche underprint. The reverse carries the full text of the notgeld obligation in Polish, arranged in several lines across the central field, with three manuscript signatures of authorising municipal officials at the foot of the note. |
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Lwów's municipal emergency issue of autumn 1914 was a direct response to the Russian advance into Galicia. As Austrian imperial currency vanished from circulation almost overnight — hoarded, evacuated with retreating troops, or simply unavailable — cities were left to improvise. The Kasa Gminy Miasta Lwowa had no central bank backing and no printing infrastructure designed for currency production; the notes were produced locally under acute wartime pressure, and it shows in the relatively crude execution compared to Vienna-printed issues.
Russian forces occupied Lwów in September 1914 and held the city until June 1915. Notes issued in that window circulated under occupation, which complicates their provenance considerably.