Poland

Those who are fond of the history of minting coins by European states at the beginning of the last century could not help but notice that due to military needs, a number of countries during the First World War were forced to abandon the issue of coins from strategic materials such as brass, bronze, copper, nickel and switch to less popular in the military industry zinc and steel. Issued coins sometimes repeated the design of their pre-war "predecessors," but only in a different material, or, came out in a completely new design . I want to tell you about these coins, as well as coins issued by the conquering countries for circulation in the occupied territories, accompanying my review with illustrations of coins from my own collection.