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5 Pfennig - Bnin
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bnin |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#48.1, Men05#2987.1, Men18#3814.1 |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unadorned field displaying the date 1917 in the upper portion and a large bold numeral 5 denoting the denomination prominently in the centre, rendered in a serif typeface. The entire design is enclosed within a continuous beaded border running along the rim. The austere, typographic composition is characteristic of wartime Notgeld emergency coinage. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bnin was a small town in the Prussian province of Posen — today Bnin is absorbed into Kórnik, Poland. This piece is Kriegsgeld, emergency coinage issued by local municipal authorities after the German imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production in 1916, leaving municipalities to fill the small-denomination gap themselves. Zinc was the fallback material for hundreds of such issues, though its corrosive instability means survivors in undamaged condition are harder to find than mintage context would suggest.