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3 Pfennig - Marienwerder
| Issuer | Marienwerder (West Prussia), City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A plain inner circle occupies the central field, bearing the denomination numeral in relief at center. A continuous Latin legend encircles the inner circle, reading the city name, the designation NOTGELD, the denomination figure, and the date 1918, separated by bullet stops. The entire design is contained within a raised pearl border running along the rim. |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays the municipal coat of arms of Marienwerder in relief, depicting a horizontally striped shield divided into two quarters: the dexter quarter bearing a crozier (pastoral staff) and the sinister quarter featuring a bishop's mitre above a Latin cross, referencing the city's ecclesiastical history. The shield is rendered with fine horizontal line engraving to indicate tincture. A raised pearl border frames the entire design along the rim, with a plain flat field between the shield and the border. |
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Marienwerder's 1918 iron notgeld issue belongs to the desperate last months of the German war economy, when copper and zinc had been requisitioned so thoroughly that municipalities were left to improvise with whatever base metals remained. The city — now Kwidzyn in modern Poland — sat in the contested West Prussian corridor that would become a flashpoint in post-war boundary negotiations, ultimately remaining German after a 1920 plebiscite that returned an overwhelming vote against incorporation into the new Polish state.