Catalog
20 Marks Wejherowo
| Issuer | Starostwo Powiatu Wejherowskiego (District Authority of Wejherowo) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note printed in orange and black, centred on a vignette of a crowned Polish eagle. Bilingual text is arranged in two columns — Polish on the left, German on the right — stating the issuing authority, denomination, and payability at the district communal treasury in Wejherowo. The lower portion carries the date 14 February 1920 and spaces for the countersignatures of the Starosta and Skarbnik. |
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| 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. STAROSTWO POWIATU WEJHEROWSKIEGO 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 (then still known to many as Neustadt in Westpreußen) was transferred from Germany to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles in January 1920, and this note was issued by the newly installed Polish district authority almost immediately after the handover. The timing matters: the Polish state's own currency infrastructure hadn't yet reached Pomerelia, and locally issued emergency notes like this one bridged the administrative gap left by the retreating German mark system.
These Starostwo issues are among the shortest-lived of the Polish powiat notgeld — the series was rendered obsolete within months as the Polish mark displaced local substitutes.