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20 Fenigów
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (Fenigów) (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Facing eagle displayed with wings raised and spread, the head turned slightly, surmounted by a royal crown above; the eagle's talons grip downward in heraldic fashion. A border of small five-pointed stars encircles the entire design within the rim. The mint mark 'F F' appears in the lower field flanking the eagle's tail. The design is rendered in a clean, stylized heraldic tradition characteristic of German-occupied Polish coinage of the First World War era. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Kingdom of Poland declared in 1916 was a German and Austro-Hungarian puppet construct, never fully realized — no king was ever crowned, and the Regency Council that eventually administered it had negligible sovereignty. These iron coins were issued precisely because the occupying powers had no intention of spending real metal on a polity they controlled entirely. Iron was the wartime substitute, and its poor corrosion resistance means survivors in any decent condition are harder to find than mintage figures suggest.