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10 Pfennig - Gostyn
| Issuer | Magistrat der Kreisstadt Gostyn (Posen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 23.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a stylized three-towered city gate or castle gateway in the centre of the field, rendered in low relief with detailed battlements and an arched central portal flanked by two smaller towers, characteristic of a civic heraldic emblem. A decorative foliate or scroll ornament appears below the gateway. The central device is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The circular legend MAGISTRAT DER KREISSTADT GOSTYN reads around the upper and lateral periphery, while the date 1917 is placed in the lower field below the ornament, between two six-pointed star separators. The outer rim is bordered by a continuous ring of raised beads. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 10 ★ ★ ★ |
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Gostyn (Gostyń) was a mid-sized administrative center in the Posen region, territory Prussia had held since the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. By 1917, the German war economy had stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage entirely, forcing municipal and commercial bodies across the Reich to issue their own Notgeld in zinc, iron, and pressed paper. This piece is one of hundreds of such local emergency issues, but those from the Posen district carry the additional historical weight of being struck in a region that would be ceded to reconstituted Poland just two years later under the Treaty of Versailles.