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50 Pfennig - Hohensalza
| Issuer | Kreis Hohensalza (District of Hohensalza, Posen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the heraldic shield of Hohensalza, depicting a crowned eagle displayed upon a divided escutcheon, rendered in bold relief. The shield is surrounded by a beaded inner border. The circular legend KREIS HOHENSALZA arcs around the upper periphery, flanked by decorative star ornaments at the lower left and right, all within an outer beaded rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✦ KREIS HOHENSALZA ✦ |
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Hohensalza — known today as Inowrocław in north-central Poland — was still firmly within the German Province of Posen when this piece was issued in the final months of the First World War. Wartime metal shortages had stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage, forcing hundreds of German districts and municipalities to produce their own emergency currency, Notgeld, in iron and zinc. This kreisausgabe, issued at the district rather than municipal level, reflects the administrative tier responsible for organizing regional relief when central supply collapsed.
Within months of this piece entering circulation, the Greater Poland Uprising of December 1918 transferred control of the region to the nascent Polish state, making the entire Posen Notgeld series geographically obsolete almost immediately upon issue.