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Konitz Westpreußen
| Issuer | City of Konitz |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Diameter | 20.7 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the heraldic ox head of the Konitz civic arms as the central device, rendered in relief within a beaded inner circle. Three six-pointed stars are positioned above the ox head in the upper field. A circular legend reading MAGISTRAT DER STADT KONITZ I. WRP surrounds the central device, separated from it by the beaded border. Below the central device, a five-pointed star appears, flanked by the miniature maker's inscription L. CHR. LAUER NUERNBERG in the lower field. The outer rim is defined by a continuous beaded border matching the obverse. |
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Konitz — now Chojnice in northern Poland — issued iron notgeld in 1916 as the German war economy stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage. The city sat in West Prussia, a province wrested from Poland during the partitions of the eighteenth century and returned to the reconstituted Polish state in 1920 under the Treaty of Versailles, making these wartime municipal issues among the last artifacts of German civic administration there.
Iron corrodes readily, and survivors in collectible condition are proportionally scarcer than equivalent brass or zinc issues from the same period.