2 Korony Bielsko

Bielsko issued its own emergency scrip in 1919 during the period of acute political uncertainty following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, when the town found itself contested between Polish and Czechoslovak territorial claims. Municipal authorities across the region filled the vacuum left by the disintegrating Habsburg monetary system with locally printed notes, and Bielsko was among dozens of Silesian and Galician towns to do so. The plebiscite question over Cieszyn Silesia made this particular moment especially fraught.

The korony denomination anchors it firmly in the Austrian successor currency, before the Polish złoty consolidated control.