Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1163. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

POLAND, Prusy (Prussia). Gdansk (Danzig). AV Proof 25 Gulden (7.99 g, 12h). Berlin mint. Dated 1930. Freie/Stadt Danzig in two lines across upper field, civic coat-of-arms supported by lions rampant; 1930 in exergue / Statue of Neptune standing left on wave and protome of horse, folding trident and conch; 25/Gul-den across field. _ NEC TIMIDE (floral spray)_(floral spray) NEC TEMERE on edge. Kopicki 7855; Gumowski 2655; Friedberg 44; KM 150. UNC, traces of underlying luster, overall attractive surfaces.

This issue, with a mintage of 4000 specimens, was never intended to circulate. A few, however, were issued in presentation cases to VIPs following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.