Konitz Westpreußen

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.