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100 Gulden Bank Von Danzig
| Issuer | Bank von Danzig |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The right field carries a vignette of Saint Christopher in armour and mantle, standing with the Christ Child upon his left shoulder and a stave in his left hand, reproduced after the carved relief in the Artus Court of Danzig. The denomination appears in numerals and text in the remaining fields, framed by guilloche ornament. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 100 BANK VON DANZIG EINHUNDERT GULDEN |
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The Bank von Danzig was established in 1923 to manage the currency of the Free City of Danzig, the anomalous city-state carved out of West Prussia under the Treaty of Versailles. It operated independently of both Germany and Poland, though the Danzig Gulden was pegged to the Polish złoty from 1927 onward — a constant source of political friction given the city's overwhelmingly German-speaking population and its ambiguous status under League of Nations oversight.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the bulk of the Bank von Danzig's higher denominations in London, a routine arrangement for smaller issuing authorities lacking domestic intaglio capacity. The bank's note-issuing function was effectively terminated when Gauleiter Forster declared Danzig's annexation into the Reich in September 1939, at which point Reichsmark displaced Gulden almost immediately.