DANZIG

The Free City of Danzig was created by the treaty of versailles which lasted between the two world wars. It was made up of the city of Danzig - today called Gdansk - and 200 towns in the area surrounding the city. Previously it was part of Prussia , West Prussia and the Weirmar Republic and existed between 1920 and 1939. The city was administered by the local nazi party from 1933 until 1939 when the Yalta conference decided it should be part of Poland.

Monetary Unit: 1 Mark = 100 pfennig

The Notes above are the emergency money issued in 1919 as the city state was being set up and was issued by the city council.

The notes are the 50 and 10 Pfennig notes and both are uniface.

see also Poland and Germany

KIAO CHAU

Now this is a bit of an anomaly!! This is a German "note-geld" from Kiao Chau a German enclave on the east coast of china which was occupied by the German army in 1897 and negotiated a 99 year lease from the Chinese Government. the Japanese laid siege to the port in 1914 and occupied it until 1922, when it was returned to the Chinese government. It was again occupied by the Japanese from 1936 until the end of the WWII (1945) when it returned to the Peoples Republic. And the anomaly ? well this note has 1921 and 75 pfennig on it - in 1921 the Japanese were in occupation and the monetary system was dollars and cents from 1907 !!! so a bit more digging is needed to see if this is a forgery or some kind of commemorative note.