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10 Pfennig - Hohensalza

Issuer Kreis Hohensalza (District of Hohensalza, Posen)
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Value 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10)
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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.

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