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10 Pfennig - Koschmin
| Issuer | Koschmin (Posen), City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border frames a circular field, within which a second inner pearl border encloses the municipal coat of arms of Koschmin at center, depicting a heraldic eagle displayed on a vertically striped shield. The circumferential legend reads KREISSTADT KOSCHMIN, separated by star ornaments, and the date 1918 appears in the lower field between the inner and outer pearl borders. |
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| Mintage | 1918 - F#258.5 - 1918 - F#258.5a) Obverse: Coat of arms is 10.0 mm high, Reverse: base line of 1 points at end line K, 1 is 7.0 mm high. - 1918 - F#258.5b) like a), but base line of 1 oints to the beginning line of K. - 1918 - F#258.5c) like a), but base line points to corner L. - 1918 - F#258.5d) Obverse: coat of arms is 11.0 mm high, Reverse: 1 is 6.5 mm high. - 1918 - F#258.5e) Obverse: coat of arms is 11.5 mm high, Reverse: like d) - |
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Koschmin — known today as Koźmin Wielkopolski — issued this emergency coinage in 1918 as the German Reich's metal supply collapsed under the weight of four years of war procurement. The town sat in the Province of Posen, a region with a majority Polish population administered under Prussian rule since the partitions of the late eighteenth century. Within weeks of this notgeld's issue, the Greater Poland Uprising of December 1918 would transfer effective control of the region to Polish forces, making this piece a product of German municipal authority that would cease to exist almost immediately after striking.