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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Pritzwalk |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a salmon-pink vertically lined underprint within an olive-green outer border and a double black inner frame. To the upper centre, the issuer's name is set in large blackletter script, flanked by the text of the promise to pay in Fraktur lettering. At lower left, a woodcut-style vignette of the Pritzwalk civic coat of arms — a crowned tower above a leaping stag — is balanced on the right by a large ceramic jug bearing the denomination '1 Mk.' in red overprint. The city skyline with church spires runs across the lower centre, with the issue date 25 February 1922, the magistrate's facsimile signatures, and the serial number and validity date at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der räuber låsset sie feyerlich schwören / daß sie keÿnem menschen verrate / wo er stecke |
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Pritzwalk is a small town in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, its Stadthauptkasse — the municipal treasury — issued emergency paper money as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination currency in circulation during accelerating inflation. These Notgeld issues were technically loans against the town's credit, not central bank obligations, and their legal standing was perpetually ambiguous.
The DeNG reference suggests this is one of six known variants within the 1077.1–6/10 grouping, likely distinguished by serial number ranges, color shading, or minor typographic differences rather than fundamentally different designs. Pritzwalk Notgeld from this period is collectable but not rare — the town's issues were fairly well documented by contemporary collectors who drove active local distribution almost immediately.