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50 Heller Lwow
| Issuer | Gmina Miasta Lwowa (Municipality of Lviv) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the left half bears a finely engraved oval vignette of the Lwów High Castle tower rising above a rooftop cityscape, enclosed within acanthus-leaf scrollwork. The right half carries the bold denomination '50 HALERZY' and date '1919' within a matching foliate cartouche, surmounted by the crowned municipal coat of arms of Lwów with a lion passant, while fields for series and number ('SERYA' and 'NUMER') are positioned at the lower right. A pale blue repeating numeral underprint runs across the entire face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HALERZY 1919 SERYA NUMER |
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Gmina Miasta Lwowa issued emergency notgeld during the brief but brutal Polish-Ukrainian conflict over Lviv in late 1918 and into 1919 — the city changed hands violently before Polish forces secured it in November 1918, and the collapse of normal currency supply made municipal scrip a practical necessity. Rudolf Mękicki, a Lwów-born graphic artist and medallist closely associated with the city's cultural institutions, both designed and engraved the note himself, which is unusual enough to warrant attention.
Mękicki's involvement gives these heller notes an artistic coherence rare in emergency municipal issues.