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10 Pfennig - Bnin
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bnin (Posen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | DER MAGISTRAT DER STADT ★ BNIN ★ |
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| Reverse lettering | 1917 10 |
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Bnin was a small Polish town incorporated into the Prussian province of Posen following the partitions of the late eighteenth century. This notgeld issue dates to the severe metal shortages of 1917, when the German military's demand for copper and nickel stripped municipal governments of their normal coining metals, forcing even minor township authorities to issue zinc emergency currency. Bnin reverted to Polish administration after 1918 and was eventually absorbed into the neighboring town of Kórnik in 1934, making its wartime civic identity — and anything it issued under it — a dead end in the administrative record.