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10 Pfennig - Hohensalza
| Issuer | Kreis Hohensalza (District of Hohensalza, Posen) |
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| Weight | 2.4 g |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 10 dominates the central field, denoting the denomination of ten Pfennig. Surrounding the numeral is a rope or cable inner circle, within which the legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE is inscribed along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering. Three small six-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc outside the inner circle, with the entire design enclosed by a beaded border at the rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 10 ★ ★ ★ |
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Hohensalza — known today as Inowrocław in north-central Poland — was the administrative seat of a predominantly Polish district that Germany had held since the Partitions of the eighteenth century. During World War I, the imperial German government permitted local Kreise to issue emergency iron coinage, Kriegsgeld, to address the acute shortage of small change caused by hoarding and metal requisitioning. Iron was itself a concession to wartime necessity; copper and nickel had long since been pulled for munitions.
The district reverted to Polish sovereignty in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles, making this a short-lived issuing authority by any measure.