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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Pritzwalk |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and olive-green vertical-line underprint on cream paper, enclosed within a double-ruled border. The city name "Pritzwalk" is set in large blackletter type beneath the issuer legend, flanked by two vignettes: at left, the crowned municipal coat of arms with an eagle, and at right, a ceramic jug bearing the denomination "2 Mk." in red. A silhouette townscape runs along the lower centre, below which the serial number and validity date appear in blackletter script. The note bears a manuscript date of 25 February 1922 and two facsimile signatures on behalf of the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a pale pink crosshatch underprint, enclosed within a double-ruled frame. The central vignette, rendered in a woodcut style, shows a group of armoured medieval soldiers and citizens escorting a prisoner through a wooded landscape with a church tower visible in the background. A two-part blackletter inscription in the upper and lower borders provides the historical caption relating to the capture of Heine and his transport to Pritzwalk. |
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Pritzwalk is a small town in Brandenburg, and its Stadthausskasse — the municipal treasury — issued this 2 Mark note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921–1922. Inflation had driven coins out of circulation by hoarding and melting, forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency money. This is Notgeld in its most purely functional form: a local government covering a gap the Reichsbank could not.
The DeNG reference places this within the ninth or tenth variant of the Pritzwalk series, suggesting the municipality returned to press multiple times as demand persisted.