Catalog
10 Marks Wejherowo
| Issuer | Starostwo Powiatu Wejherowskiego (District Office of Wejherowo) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Orange-red letterpress on plain paper. A circular official seal of the Starostwo Powiatu Wejherowskiego, bearing a Polish eagle at its centre, is printed centrally. Bilingual redemption text in Polish occupies the left column and the German equivalent occupies the right column, both columns flanking the seal symmetrically. |
| Reverse lettering | Ten przekaz traci wartość, skoro po upływie miesiąca po publicznem ogłoszeniu w powiatowym okólniku, w kasie powiatowej komunalnej w Wejherowie nie zostanie zamieniony. Dieser Notgeldschein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach öffentlicher Aufforderung im Kreisblatt bei der Kreiskommunalkasse in Wejherowo eingelöst wird. |
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Wejherowo's 1920 issue belongs to the chaotic interlude between German withdrawal and the formal establishment of Polish administrative authority in Pomerania following the Treaty of Versailles. The region was transferred to Poland in February 1920, and local offices scrambled to fill the vacuum left by collapsing German municipal currency — the Notgeld system — before Polish state banknotes reached provincial circulation in adequate quantities.
The Starostwo, essentially a county administrative office with no banking mandate, issued these notes under sheer necessity. Similar emergency scrip from newly incorporated Pomeranian districts is thinly documented, and Wejherowo examples rarely surface.