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25 Pfennige Danziger Zentralkasse
| Issuer | Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | P#36 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a rose-brown guilloche underprint. The denomination "Danziger 25 Pfennige" is printed in large blackletter (Fraktur) script across the upper portion, above a central circular guilloche containing a ghost numeral "25". The issuer name "Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft" appears in the lower panel alongside the date "Danzig, den 22. Oktober 1923" and two manuscript signatures, with a decorative floral guilloche border framing the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Danziger 25 Pfennige Dieser Kassenschein wird unter den gleichen Bedingungen eingelöst und aufgerufen wie unsere Gulden-Kassenscheine. Danzig, den 22. Oktober 1923. Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft. DV |
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The Danziger Zentralkasse was established specifically to serve the Free City of Danzig after the post-WWI settlement detached the city from Germany and left it without a stable banking infrastructure. By 1923, the hyperinflationary collapse unfolding across the border in Germany was pressuring Danzig's own currency, and the Zentralkasse was issuing small-denomination emergency notes to keep fractional transactions functional — the Pfennig denominations being among the more ephemeral products of that scramble.
Pick 36 sits in a series of low-value notgeld-adjacent issues that circulated briefly and were largely discarded once stability returned. Survival rate is accordingly poor.