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1 Pfennig - Landsberg an der Warthe
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Landsberg an der Warthe |
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| Weight | 1.9 g |
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| Obverse description | Plain flat field framed by an inner pearl circle, within which the numeral '1' is prominently struck in bold relief at centre. A circular legend reading 'MAGISTRAT DER STADT LANDSBERG A/W.' runs along the periphery between the pearl circle and the outer milled rim, with a raised dot serving as a stop. The design is entirely typographic, with no pictorial elements, reflecting the utilitarian character of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Landsberg an der Warthe — today Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland — issued iron notgeld pfennigs during the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities in the early 1920s. Iron was not a preferred minting metal; it was the available one. Municipal authorities across Prussia issued their own coinage not out of ambition but sheer necessity, as copper and nickel had been swallowed by wartime requisitions and postwar metal shortages left everyday transactions without workable small denominations.
The Funck reference places this among the catalogued Brandenburg-region municipal issues. Iron strikes of this type corrode readily, making uncorroded survivors notably harder to locate than the original mintages might suggest.