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10 Gulden Bank Von Danzig
| Issuer | Bank von Danzig |
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| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 10 BANK VON DANZIG DIE BANK VON DANZIG ZAHLT DEM EINLIEFERER DIESER NOTE ZEHN GULDEN DANZIG, DEN 1. JULI 1930 BANK VON DANZIG 10 10 |
| Reverse description | The right field bears a vignette of the Neptune Fountain situated in the Długi Targ (Long Market) square in Danzig, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Denomination numerals appear in the corners, with the issuer name and value inscriptions set within guilloche border elements. |
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The Bank von Danzig operated as the central bank of the Free City of Danzig, the anomalous city-state created under League of Nations protection by the Treaty of Versailles. Politically neither German nor Polish, Danzig maintained its own currency — the Gulden — pegged first to the British pound and later to the Dutch guilder after 1935. Bradbury Wilkinson, the Surrey-based security printer, handled much of the series, a common arrangement for small states lacking domestic printing infrastructure.
By 1939 the entire monetary experiment was finished. The Reichsmark absorbed the Gulden within days of German annexation in September.