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100 Koron Lwow
| Issuer | Gmina Królewskiego Stołecznego Miasta Lwowa (Municipality of the Royal Capital City of Lwów) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on blue and red guilloche underprint. The central field carries text in Polish identifying the municipal issuer and denomination, with three manuscript or printed signatures of municipal officials positioned along the lower margin. The overall layout is characteristic of emergency municipal issue notgeld of the First World War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | STO KORON Gmina król. Stoł. Miasta Lwowa (Translation: One Hundred Korona / Municipality of the Royal Capital City of Lwów) |
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Lwów's municipal government issued these emergency notes in 1915 under Austrian occupation administration, filling a coin shortage that had become acute as metal was redirected toward the war effort. Gmina Królewskiego Stołecznego Miasta Lwowa — the municipality itself, not any banking institution — became the issuing authority by administrative necessity, a situation repeated across dozens of Galician towns during that period.
The city had fallen briefly to Russian forces in September 1914 before being retaken by Austria-Hungary in June 1915. Notes issued in the immediate aftermath of that recapture circulated in genuinely unstable conditions, and survivor rates reflect it.