1000 Gulden Bank Von Danzig

The Bank von Danzig was established in 1924 specifically to issue currency for the Free City of Danzig, the anomalous city-state created under League of Nations protection by the Treaty of Versailles. Danzig's monetary independence from both Germany and Poland was politically contentious from the start — Poland controlled the port facilities while Danzig issued its own gulden, a currency that had no predecessor and needed to project credibility it hadn't yet earned.

Bradbury Wilkinson secured the printing contract, as they did for numerous newly-created or reconstituted states in the interwar years. The 1000 Gulden was the highest denomination of the inaugural 1924 series, issued into an economy still raw from postwar hyperinflation just across the German border.