Konitz Westpreußen

Konitz — now Chojnice in northern Poland — issued notgeld coinage in 1916 as the German imperial government systematically drained copper and nickel from circulation for munitions production. Iron was the mandated substitute, and municipal authorities across Westpreußen were left to manage their own small-change crises independently. The two Menadier varieties catalogued here suggest at least one die revision during the issue's production run, a detail that receives little attention but is meaningful for attribution.