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2 Pfennig - Schneidemühl
| Issuer | Magistrat Schneidemühl (Posen) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRAT ★ SCHNEIDEMÜHL ★ |
| Reverse description | A prominent pearl border runs along the outer rim, enclosing a circular legend in Latin characters. Within the legend, a twisted rope circle frames the central field, in which the large numeral '2' denotes the denomination. The date '1916', flanked by two star separators, appears in the lower segment of the legend band between the rope circle and the pearl rim. |
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Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1916 as the German imperial government's war requisitioning stripped copper and nickel from municipal circulation. The Magistrat had limited authority to issue such pieces, but the near-total disappearance of small change forced hundreds of German and occupied-territory municipalities to act unilaterally. Zinc was the fallback material precisely because it had little strategic value to the military.
Funck 480.1 is the primary catalogued variety for this issue.