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5 Pfennig - Mogilno
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Mogilno |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | The central field features the large numeral '5' in bold relief, enclosed within a continuous inner beaded circle. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE — meaning 'small change substitute token' — runs between the inner beaded border and an outer beaded border, flanking the top and sides of the coin. The date 1916 appears at the base of the design between two six-pointed stars, all within the outer beaded border that follows the octagonal contour of the flan. The composition is plain and functional, consistent with the emergency coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 5 ★ 1916 ★ |
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Mogilno, then a small Prussian town in the Posen province, issued this notgeld piece in 1916 as the German war economy drained copper and nickel from civilian coinage entirely. Municipal authorities across the occupied and domestic German territories were left to fill the small-change vacuum themselves, producing zinc issues of wildly varying quality. Mogilno's output is among the more obscure, the town having a population of only a few thousand at the time.