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1/2 Marka Kościerski
| Issuer | Kasa Komunalna Powiatu Kościerskiego |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1919-1920) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on a salmon-pink underprint. The issuer's name 'Kasa Komunalna Powiatu Kościerskiego' is inscribed across the top, with the bold denomination 'PÓŁ MARKI' centred above a vignette of a Gothic civic building rendered in the underprint. Denomination numerals '1/2' appear in circular cartouches at each upper corner, with the series designation and serial number printed in red below the vignette. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr Ign. Mellin (Starosta) and Biedowicz (Kasjer) |
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Issued by the communal treasury of Kościerzyna district in 1920, this note belongs to the dense wave of Polish powiat emergency currency that flooded Pomerania during the chaotic transition period following the Paris Peace Conference. The Kościerzyna area was formally transferred from Germany to the newly reconstituted Polish state only in January 1920, and local authorities scrambled to fill the immediate currency vacuum before Warsaw's monetary infrastructure reached them. Bodenstein & Miehlke in Danzig — itself then in the process of becoming a Free City — were the practical choice for nearby printing work.
The signatories are the Starosta and the communal cashier, whose institutional authority at that moment was genuinely improvised.