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10 Pfennig - Lissa
| Issuer | Lissa (Posen), City of |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | A raised pearl border encircles the entire face. The large numeral '10' occupies the central field, flanked on either side by a raised dot. A circular legend in capital Latin letters reads 'STADT' at the top and 'LISSA (POSEN)' along the lower periphery, running continuously around the denomination. The design is utilitarian in character, consistent with German Notgeld emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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| Reverse description | A raised pearl border runs continuously around the circumference of the reverse. The large numeral '10' is boldly struck and centered in the otherwise plain field, commanding the full height of the design area. No additional legend, device, or ornament appears on this face. The stark, unadorned composition is typical of wartime municipal emergency coinage produced under material and production constraints. |
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Lissa — now Leszno in western Poland — was part of the Prussian province of Posen when this iron notgeld piece circulated. Germany's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from everyday coinage after 1915, pushing hundreds of municipalities to issue their own iron and zinc substitutes. Lissa was among the smaller Posen towns that did so, and surviving pieces in collectible condition are scarcer than their urban counterparts from Berlin or Hamburg simply due to lower original production volumes.