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1 Pfennig - Tilsit
| Issuer | City of Tilsit |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD ✶ STADT TILSIT ✶ |
| Reverse description | Octagonal flan with a raised pearl border encircling an inner beaded ring. Within the central field, the large numeral 1 is displayed prominently above the denomination PFENNIG, all within the inner circle. The circular legend IN EISERNER ZEIT runs between the pearl border and the beaded ring, with the date 1918 appearing at the base of the field below the denomination, separated by a small star ornament. |
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Tilsit — now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast — issued notgeld coinage in 1918 as the German Imperial economy buckled under wartime metal shortages and the collapse of centralized supply. Iron was the material of necessity by this point; copper and nickel had been commandeered for munitions years earlier. Municipal and local authorities across Germany and occupied territories filled the gap with whatever base metals remained available.
Tilsit sits on the Memel River, the same town where Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I signed their famous 1807 treaties aboard a raft. By 1918 it was a Prussian administrative center scrambling to keep small change in circulation as the Kaiser's government disintegrated around it.