Catalog
50 Marks Wejherowo
| Issuer | Starostwo Powiatu Wejherowskiego (District Office of Wejherowo) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 148 × 100 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and black bicolour Notgeld issue. A Polish white eagle vignette is centered on the note, flanked by parallel columns of text: the Polish-language legend to the left and its German equivalent to the right. The lower portion carries the date, place of issue, and the manuscript or printed signatures of the Starosta and Skarbnik. |
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| Obverse lettering | Przekaz na 50 Marek Płatny w kasie powiatowej komunalnej w Wejherowie Wejherowo, dnia 14 lutego 1920r Starosta Skarbnik |
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Wejherowo's district administration issued this 50 Mark note during the brief and administratively chaotic window between the formal end of German rule and the Polish takeover of Pomerania — a period when local authorities across the region improvised their own emergency currency because central supply had simply collapsed. These Powiat-level issues were never coordinated with Warsaw and carry no National Bank authority whatsoever.
The Starostwo series is thinly documented. Survival rates are low, largely because the notes were demonetized quickly once proper Polish currency infrastructure reached the western provinces.