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50 Pfennig - Znin
| Issuer | Kreis Znin (District of Znin, Posen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#627.4, Men18#35180.4 |
| Obverse description | An outer pearl border follows the octagonal periphery of the flan, enclosing a circular pearl ring within which the large numeral '50' is prominently centered in the field. The legend 'KREIS ZNIN' arcs across the upper portion of the coin between the pearl border and the inner pearl circle, while the date '1918' is inscribed along the lower arc, each flanked by a five-pointed star serving as a divider. The overall design is plain and utilitarian, characteristic of German wartime Notgeld emergency coinage. |
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| Reverse description | An outer pearl border follows the octagonal periphery, within which a twisted rope circle encloses the large numeral '50' prominently centered in the field. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) encircles the rope border in the annular space between the rope ring and the pearl border. Three five-pointed stars appear in the lower field below the rope circle as decorative dividers. The design is austere and functional, consistent with the wartime emergency coinage aesthetic of the German Imperial period. |
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Znin (now Żnin, Poland) was part of the Prussian Province of Posen, a territory contested between German administration and a predominantly Polish population that would revolt and seize much of the region by January 1919. This notgeld was issued in the final months of German control, as the Imperial government collapsed and local authorities scrambled to fill the coin shortage created by wartime metal requisitions stripping copper and nickel from circulation. Iron was the last resort.
The district would pass to the newly reconstituted Polish state under the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, rendering these pieces obsolete within months of issue.