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2 Pfennige Danziger Zentralkasse
| Issuer | Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green text on an orange guilloche underprint with a decorative lace-like border framing the entire note. The denomination "2" appears in large numerals at centre, flanked by the inscription "Danziger Pfennige" in gothic lettering. Below, a German-language redemption clause, the date "Danzig, den 22. Oktober 1923", the issuer name "Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft", and a manuscript signature are arranged in descending order. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain white paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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The Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft was established specifically to manage the financial affairs of the Free City of Danzig, a League of Nations-administered territory that existed in a permanent constitutional awkwardness — neither German nor Polish, yet economically entangled with both. By 1923, the hyperinflationary collapse sweeping Weimar Germany was bleeding across the border, and low-denomination emergency notes like this 2 Pfennige piece were a direct response to the coinage shortage that followed.
The Pfennig denominations from this institution are among the lowest-value paper issues of any European autonomous territory from the period.