A 10-krajcar banknote from 1860, which was an important part of the monetary circulation in Galicia and Lodomeria.
Although this piece is in heavily circulated condition, it deserves special attention from collectors of banknotes from the period of the Partitions.
As Krystian Browarny, a researcher of Galician currency , emphasizes, these banknotes:“are the first and last kraichar banknotes in the entire history of Galicia and Lodomeria to feature inscriptions in Polish: ‘TEN NEW KRAJCARS.’ This designation stemmed from the fact that, as a result of the 1857 reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, the “Austrian currency” system was introduced, replacing the conventional coinage system. In the new system, the Austrian gulden was divided into 100 krajcar, rather than 60 as before. It is worth noting that for many years afterward, the Polish population in Galicia, attached to the old system, referred to the new 10 krajcar coins—that is, 1/10 of a gulden—as “>sixes<.”
