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50 Halerzy Miasto Cieszyn - Stadt Teschen
| Issuer | Cieszyn, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Halerzy / Heller (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | German-language side of this bilingual municipal Notgeld, mirror in layout to the obverse. The left panel reproduces the Cieszyn/Teschen city arms — twin Gothic towers with an eagle above, rendered in blue and black against a dense guilloche underprint — within a matching decorative frame. The right panel presents the large blue numeral '50' with 'Heller' inscribed above and below, accompanied by a German redemption text, the authority line 'Stadtvorstand Teschen, am 1. Juni 1919', two manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister and the Finanzausschuss, and a red serial number in the lower left corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Teschen Gutschein über Heller 50 Heller Dieser Gutschein wird an der städt. Kassa während seiner Umlaufszeit gegen gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel umgetauscht. Drei Monate nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung zum Antausche verliert dieser Gutschein seine Gültigkeit. Stadtvorstand Teschen, am 1. Juni 1919 Der Bürgermeister: Mit Genehmigung der Rada Narodowa des Herzogtums Teschen. für den Finanzausschuss: |
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Cieszyn in early 1919 was one of the most contested towns in Central Europe — simultaneously claimed by Poland and Czechoslovakia, divided in July 1920 by the Conference of Ambassadors along the Olza River. This note predates that partition, issued when the town was still a single administrative unit under joint Polish-Czech provisional control following the brief but violent Seven Days' War of January 1919.
The bilingual title — Polish "Miasto Cieszyn" alongside German "Stadt Teschen" — is a direct artifact of that unresolved sovereignty, not a stylistic choice. Local emergency scrip of this kind was printed in Cieszyn itself, filling a vacuum left by the collapse of Austro-Hungarian currency infrastructure.