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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Luftkurort und Eisenmoorbad Wilsnack Wunderblut Kirche · Baubeginn 1384 Wirkung des Wunderblutes. Hundert Pfennig Wilsnack gültig bis 20. Juni 1922 Der Magistrat Bürgermeister SIGILLUM WILSNACK KIRCHEN-SIEGEL WILSNACK |
| Reverse description | The central vignette, printed in black on a cream ground, illustrates a medieval scene dated "i. Jahre 1383" showing a group of figures — a priest and townspeople — witnessing a burning village, rendered in a woodcut-inspired line-art style. Flanking lateral panels in deep navy carry the denomination "100" above and "Pfennig" below, framed by repeating foliate and geometric ornamental borders in salmon-pink tones. A lower text band in salmon carries a Middle Low German inscription referencing the church and the burning of the village. |
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Wilsnack — officially Bad Wilsnack after 1935 — was a tiny Brandenburg town whose medieval pilgrimage church had drawn crowds across northern Europe for centuries before the Reformation ended all that. By 1922 it was an unremarkable rural backwater issuing notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to plug the small-denomination coin shortage that hyperinflation had created. The Magistrat, not a bank, signed off on these notes — local administrative authority filling a void the Reichsbank had effectively abandoned at the community level.
Series longevity was short by design; most municipal issues like this were rendered worthless within months as the inflation spiral made even 100 Pfennig denominations economically trivial.