100 Pfennig

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.