Catalog
10 Halerzy Bielsko
| Issuer | Bielsko, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Heller (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on beige underprint. The back repeats the essential note text in German, mirroring the content of the obverse in the second official language of the bilingual municipality. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 HELER (Translation: 10 HELER) |
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Bielsko in 1920 was a city in administrative and ethnic flux — formally incorporated into the newly reconstituted Polish state but still heavily German-speaking and economically entangled with Vienna. Municipal notgeld of this type emerged precisely because postwar currency chaos made small-denomination coinage nearly impossible to obtain. The Austrian krone was collapsing, the new Polish mark had not yet penetrated reliably into Silesian commerce, and local authorities filled the gap themselves.
At 64 × 35 mm, this is among the smallest notgeld formats produced in the region — a practical consequence of wartime paper rationing that persisted well into 1920.