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| Danzig coins 5 Gulden Silver Coin of 1923 |
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| Coins of the Free City of Danzig 5 Gulden Silver Coin of 1923 |
Obverse: Front view of St. Mary's Church of Danzig. The top of the church is braking out of the upper border!
Legend: FREIE STADT DANZIG * FÜNF GULDEN * 1923
Reverse: Star above shield of the Free City of Danzig, held by roaring lions, guardians of the Free State of Danzig. Denomination below.
Legend: 5 GULDEN
Edge Legend: NEC * TEMPERE * NEC * TIMIDE * ("Neither rashly nor timidly")
Reference: KM-147. R!
Weight: 24.94 gram of Silver (.750)
Diameter: 35 mm
The coinage of Danzig was issued with the monetary unit of gulden = 100 pfennigs. The currency was based on an exchange rate of 25 gulden equal to 1£ Pound Sterling.
The gulden has a par value of approximately $0.1947.
St. Mary's Church (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka, German: Marienkirche) or, properly, Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Gdańsku) is a Roman Catholic church in Gdańsk, Poland, which is claimed to be the largest brick church in the world. It was begun in 1379. (The tallest brick church is St. Martin's Church, Landshut, Germany.) St. Mary's is one of the largest European Brick Gothic buildings, which include castles. From the Protestant Reformation until 1945, when it was transferred back to the Catholic diocese, it was the biggest Evangelical Lutheran church in the world. It is 105.5 m long, and the nave is 66 m wide. Inside the church is room for 25,000 people. It is an aisled hall church with a transept. It is a co-cathedral in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gdańsk, along with the main cathedral for the Archdiocese, the Bazylika archikatedralna w Gdańsku-Oliwie (Basilica-Cathedral of Gdańsk-Oliwa).