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100 Gulden Bank Von Danzig
| Issuer | Bank von Danzig |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a panoramic view of the Motława river with sailing vessels along the waterfront and the medieval Żuraw (crane gate) on the right bank. The coat of arms of the Free City of Danzig appears in the left field, with the denomination in rectangular frames occupying each corner. A fine guilloche underprint fills the lower portion of the note. |
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| 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.