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50 Pfennig - Bnin
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bnin (Posen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | DER MAGISTRAT DER STADT ★ BNIN ★ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bnin was a small Polish town incorporated into the German province of Posen following the partitions of Poland, and by 1917 it sat deep inside a wartime economy stripped of copper and nickel for shell casings and industrial use. Municipal notgeld of this kind was authorised by local magistrates to address the acute shortage of small-change coinage as Reichsbank metal was diverted to the war effort. Bnin's issue is among the more obscure of the Posen municipal pieces — the town had a population of only a few thousand, which kept mintage numbers correspondingly low.