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10 Pfennig - Tremessen
| Issuer | Tremessen (Posen), City of |
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| Diameter | 20.1 mm |
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| Obverse description | A pearl border encircles the entire field. At center, the municipal coat of arms of Tremessen is depicted as a shield bearing the figure of a mitred bishop in full vestments, facing front, holding a crozier in his right hand and raising his left hand in benediction. A small six-pointed star ornament appears above the shield at the top of the field. The curved legend STADT TREMESSEN runs along the lower periphery beneath the arms, partially flanking the shield on either side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tremessen — known in Polish as Trzemeszno — was a small town in the Posen region, transferred from Prussian to Polish administration in 1920 under the Treaty of Versailles. This zinc notgeld piece dates to the acute small-change shortage of the early Weimar period, when hundreds of German municipalities briefly assumed the authority to issue their own emergency coinage. Zinc was the expedient choice: cheap, available, and already familiar from wartime German coinage.
The two catalogue variants under Men18#31450 likely reflect minor die differences rather than separate issuing events.