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1 Korona Bielsko
| Issuer | Bielsko, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 104 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on green-grey underprint. The face carries text in Polish, with the denomination inscription running across the note and two manuscript or printed signatures positioned side by side along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | JEDNA KORONA (Translation: ONE CROWN) |
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Bielsko issued local emergency money — Notgeld — in 1919 while the city's political future remained genuinely unresolved. The town sat at the center of the contested Cieszyn Silesia dispute between Czechoslovakia and the newly reconstituted Polish state, and the Paris Peace Conference had yet to draw the final line. Municipal scrip of this kind filled the gap left by the collapse of Austrian crown circulation and the absence of any agreed successor currency for the region.
The Czechoslovak-Polish border dispute over Cieszyn Silesia was ultimately submitted to the Council of Ambassadors, which divided the territory in July 1920 — Bielsko went to Poland.