Catalog
50 Fenigów Bydgoszcz
| Issuer | Magistrat Bydgoszczy (Municipality of Bydgoszcz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | MAGISTRAT ZU BROMBERG / Gutschein über 50 Pf. / in Worten: Fünfzig Pfennig. / Bromberg, den 11. März 1920. / Der Magistrat / 50 Pfennig |
| Signature(s) | Haciaszek and Friedländer |
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Bydgoszcz was transferred from German to Polish administration in January 1920 under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, and this note dates from that chaotic transitional period when local authorities were scrambling to maintain basic economic function. The city's German commercial infrastructure — including the printer Richard Koehl, still operating under the firm name Gewerbeverbände Bucher — was still physically intact and simply put to work for the new Polish municipal authority.
The mixed-language signals in this note's production history reflect a city that was, for a brief window, neither fully one thing nor the other. Koehl's press had been printing German municipal scrip; now it was printing Polish.