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100 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1#1433.1 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a woodcut-style view of the Wunderblut Kirche (construction begun 1384), flanked by two circular red wax-seal vignettes bearing the town seal of Wilsnack and the church seal. Denomination "100" appears in white on dark panels at upper left and right, with the town name in Gothic script at top. Lower right carries the Bürgermeister's signature over the legend "Der Magistrat". |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 Pfennig i. Jahre 1383 Zyr maket her Johan mith den buren den Altar reyn / vnde söten na der glockenspyse. |
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Wilsnack — properly Bad Wilsnack — was a small Brandenburg town whose medieval pilgrimage trade had long since dried up by the time the Weimar inflation crisis forced local authorities to print their own emergency money. This note is Notgeld in the strictest sense: the Magistrat stepping in where the Reichsbank could not keep small denominations in circulation fast enough to meet daily demand.
The 1922 issue predates the hyperinflationary peak; at this stage municipalities were still printing relatively modest denominations, before the arithmetic became absurd.