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50 Halerzy Bielsko
| Issuer | Bielsko, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 90 × 56 mm |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on a green-grey underprint, the reverse mirrors the structure of the obverse with the equivalent German-language text, reflecting the bilingual character of the Bielsko municipality at the time of issue. The denomination '50 HELLER' is presented centrally within a plain typographic composition consistent with the emergency-issue nature of this notgeld-type local currency. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 HELLER (Translation: 50 HELLER) |
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Bielsko's 1919 municipal notes were issued during the chaotic interregnum following the collapse of Austrian authority in the region — a period when the town itself was disputed between Polish and German-Czech political claims, and no stable central currency authority existed to supply small change. Local governments across former Galicia and Silesia filled the vacuum themselves, producing emergency Kleingeld on whatever printing resources were at hand.
The halerz denomination places this firmly in the transitional moment before the Polish mark fully displaced Austrian monetary units in the region.