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50 Pfennig - Schönlanke
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schönlanke (Posen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the municipal coat of arms of Schönlanke, depicting a walking ox (bull) on a shielded escutcheon surmounted by a mural crown. The shield is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The circular legend reads MAGISTRAT DER STADT SCHONLANKE, divided at the base by two small five-pointed stars flanking the lower inscription. |
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| Reverse description | The large denomination numeral '50' occupies the central field, rendered in bold numerals and enclosed within a rope-style inner circle. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE arcs around the upper portion of the field, while the date 1917 appears at the base flanked by two small stars, all within a beaded outer border. The design is characteristic of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the First World War period. |
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Schönlanke — now Trzcianka in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Prussian town in the Posen region when the Imperial German civilian economy collapsed under wartime metal requisitions. By 1917, the Reichsbank's copper and nickel had been largely absorbed into shell casings, forcing hundreds of municipalities to issue their own Notgeld in iron, zinc, or pressed paper. This piece is one of the more obscure municipal iron issues, documented by Funck but rarely encountered in collector inventories, likely reflecting both limited original mintage and the corrosion vulnerabilities of wartime iron flans.