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100 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) |
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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 |
| Reverse description | Central woodcut-style vignette of a medieval Mass scene dated "i. Jahre 1383", showing kneeling pilgrims before a robed priest at an altar, rendered in black on white. Flanking panels in salmon and black carry geometric ornaments and the denomination "100" and "Pfennig" in octagonal frames. A lower cartouche bears a Middle Low German inscription in Gothic script. |
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Wilsnack — officially Bad Wilsnack after 1936 — was a small Brandenburg town whose late medieval pilgrimage cult around the "Wunderblut" had faded centuries before this note was printed. By 1922, it was issuing Notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities simply to keep small-denomination transactions moving as hyperinflation made Reichsbank coin and low-value paper effectively worthless.
The Magistrat series from Wilsnack is not considered scarce. Most surviving examples show light handling consistent with brief local circulation before being pulled as the inflationary spiral made even 100 Pfennig notes economically negligible within months of issue.