Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway junction town whose municipal authority issued iron notgeld in 1917 as the imperial wartime metal requisitions drained copper and zinc from civilian coin production entirely. Iron was itself a compromise material; by the following year even that was becoming administratively awkward to source for local emergency issues.
Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway junction town whose municipal authority issued iron notgeld in 1917 as the imperial wartime metal requisitions drained copper and zinc from civilian coin production entirely. Iron was itself a compromise material; by the following year even that was becoming administratively awkward to source for local emergency issues.