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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Wilsnack |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) (1.00) |
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| Obverse description | A street-scene vignette occupies the central field, showing seven figures walking along a road lined with a half-timbered house and two conventional residential buildings, with a fenced garden and a fountain to one side. The municipal seal of the City of Wilsnack and the seal of the Wilsnackskirche (Wilsnack Church) are present on the face. Denomination and validity text are arranged around the vignette in letterpress, with the facsimile signature of Mayor Krussmann and the designation of the issuing Magistrat. |
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| Protection description | No watermark is present on this note. |
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Wilsnack — properly Bad Wilsnack, a small town in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg — issued notgeld during the postwar inflationary period when municipal authorities across Germany were forced to produce their own emergency fractional currency to fill the coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitioning. The Magistrat issues were local administrative instruments, not banking products, which is why denominations this small appear under civic rather than financial authority.
The presence of a watermark is worth noting for a piece of this type — many comparable Kleingeldscheine from minor municipalities skipped security features entirely.