Catalog
50 Gulden Danziger Zentralkasse
| Issuer | Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1923-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG DANZIGER GULDEN Gegen diesen Kassenschein sind bei der Danziger Zentral- kasse Aktiengesellschaft 2 £ stlg hinterlegt. Dieser Betrag wird den Inhaber dieses Scheines in Check auf London ausgezahlt. Danzig, den 1. November 1923 Danziger Zentralkasse Aktiengesellschaft Zur Ausschreibung vom Scheck auf London werden 3 Pence erhoben Dieser Kassenschein kann im Staats- anzeiger mit vierzehntägiger Frist zur Vorlegung eingerufen werden und wird in einer weiteren einmonatigen Frist in andere gleichwertige Kassenscheine oder in Danziger Guldenwährung umgetauscht. |
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| Protection description | a cogwheel and a ship. |
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The Danziger Zentralkasse was established in 1921 to manage the Free City of Danzig's fiscal operations after the territory was detached from Germany under the Versailles settlement and placed under League of Nations protection. Danzig's monetary situation in 1923 was acute — the city had formally adopted the Danzig Gulden as its currency in 1923 partly to insulate itself from the catastrophic hyperinflation then consuming the German Reichsmark, to which Danzig's economy remained dangerously exposed.
Printing by Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei in Aachen meant production remained within German borders despite Danzig's nominally independent status — a practical arrangement, not a political one, driven by available capacity and existing commercial relationships.