10 Gulden Pattern

Danzig's 1925 coinage program was a direct consequence of the city's anomalous political status under the Treaty of Versailles — neither German nor Polish, but a nominally independent Free City under League of Nations protection, with Poland controlling its foreign affairs and customs. The Senate issued its own currency precisely because monetary independence was one of the few sovereign instruments it actually held.

This nickel pattern was never adopted for circulation. The gulden series that did reach the public was struck in silver, and the decision to test a nickel format likely reflected fiscal pressure — silver coinage was expensive to maintain for a city-state with a population under 400,000 and no central bank of its own.