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1/2 Marka Kościerski
| Issuer | Kasa Komunalna Powiatu Kościerskiego |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Bodenstein & Miehlke, Danzig |
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| Reverse lettering | PÓŁ MARKI Wymiana bonu tegoż nastąpi przez powiatową Kasę Komunalną w terminie, który się wyznaczy. Starosta: Kasjer: |
| 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.