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2 Pfennig - Schneidemühl
| Issuer | City of Schneidemühl (Posen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRAT ★ SCHNEIDEMÜHL ★ |
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| Mintage | 1920 - F#480.9 - 1920 - F#480.9a) Obverse: C in SCHNEIDEMÜHL touches inner circle, C is more curved at the top - 1920 - F#480.9b) Obverse: C touches almost inner circle, C is equally curved above and below - 1920 - F#480.9c) like b), but C is 0.5 mm away from inner circle - |
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Schneidemühl sat at the center of one of the ugliest territorial disputes following Versailles. The city was administratively severed from its surrounding region when the Polish Corridor split Posen province, leaving it an isolated German enclave. The plebiscite chaos of 1920 and the near-total breakdown of Reichsbank supply lines into the region drove dozens of municipalities to issue their own emergency coinage — Notgeld — in whatever material was available. Iron was the answer when copper wasn't.
The Funck reference places this among the more systematically catalogued Posen issues, but survival in collectible condition is uneven. Iron notgeld corrodes aggressively.