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20 Marks Wejherowo
| Issuer | Starostwo Powiatu Wejherowskiego (District Authority of Wejherowo) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note printed in orange and black, centred on a vignette of a crowned Polish eagle. Bilingual text is arranged in two columns — Polish on the left, German on the right — stating the issuing authority, denomination, and payability at the district communal treasury in Wejherowo. The lower portion carries the date 14 February 1920 and spaces for the countersignatures of the Starosta and Skarbnik. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper ground overprinted in orange-red letterpress, centred on a large circular official seal of the Starostwo Powiatu Wejherowskiego bearing a crowned Polish eagle at its centre. Bilingual redemption conditions are set in two columns flanking the seal — Polish to the left and German to the right — advising that the note becomes void if not exchanged at the district communal treasury within one month of public announcement in the district gazette. |
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Wejherowo (then still known to many as Neustadt in Westpreußen) was transferred from Germany to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles in January 1920, and this note was issued by the newly installed Polish district authority almost immediately after the handover. The timing matters: the Polish state's own currency infrastructure hadn't yet reached Pomerelia, and locally issued emergency notes like this one bridged the administrative gap left by the retreating German mark system.
These Starostwo issues are among the shortest-lived of the Polish powiat notgeld — the series was rendered obsolete within months as the Polish mark displaced local substitutes.