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25 Pfennig - Wollin
| Issuer | Stadt Wollin (City of Wollin) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, the coat of arms of Wollin is depicted in the field: a rampant griffin facing right, with wings displayed, one foreleg raised and the tail curled upward, standing on a grassy ground line. To the left of the griffin, two conifer trees are visible, and to the right, a stylised floral or torch-like element. A small six-pointed star appears in the lower left field. No legend or inscription is present on this face. |
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Wollin — today Wolin, Poland — issued this iron notgeld piece in 1919 as Germany's postwar coin shortage left municipal governments across Pomerania scrambling to produce emergency small change. The wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel had gutted the Reichsbank's ability to supply subsidiary coinage, and the problem persisted well into the early Weimar period. Iron was the stopgap material of administrative convenience, not choice — it corrodes readily in circulation, which explains why survivors in clean condition are harder to find than the original mintages might suggest.