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10 Pfennig - Kolmar in Posen
| Issuer | Magistrat der Kreisstadt Kolmar i.P. |
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| Weight | 2.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized city gate or fortified tower with three merloned turrets and an arched passageway, rendered in raised relief against a flat field. The design represents the municipal arms or heraldic emblem of Kolmar in Posen. A circular legend reads MAGISTRAT DER KREISSTADT KOLMAR i.P. around the upper periphery, with a decorative star device completing the inscription at the base. The entire design is bordered by a raised bead ring along the outer rim. The style is typical of German Notgeld municipal token coinage of the World War I era. |
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| Reverse description | The central field features the large numeral 10 indicating the denomination, enclosed within a raised rope or twisted-cord inner circle. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE (small change substitute token) runs around the periphery between the inner rope border and the outer bead ring. Three small six-pointed stars are positioned at the base of the design below the inner circle. The flat field and bold numeral are characteristic of the utilitarian emergency coinage produced by German municipalities during the World War I small-change shortage. |
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Kolmar in Posen — today Chodzież, Poland — issued this iron notgeld during World War I when the Imperial German government requisitioned copper and nickel for munitions, forcing municipalities to produce their own emergency small change. Iron was the default fallback for dozens of Prussian provincial towns in exactly this position. The piece circulated locally until postwar currency reforms made the entire class of municipal iron coinage redundant almost overnight.