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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Pritzwalk |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadthaupt Kasse Pritzwalk zahle dem Ueberbringer dieser Platzanweisung: Pritzwalk, den 25. Febr. 1922 der Magistrat: No. Gültig bis 1. Juli 1922. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a light salmon cross-hatched guilloche ground within a double-ruled border frame and carries a large central woodcut vignette in the manner of a medieval German broadsheet illustration, divided into two scenes: at left, seated figures deliberate around a table, and at right a standing armoured knight confronts a hunched figure in an arched interior with a tiled floor. A Fraktur aphorism occupies a cartouche band across the upper margin, and a second proverbial legend is lettered in the lower border band. |
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Pritzwalk is a small town in Brandenburg, and its Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury, not a bank — was among hundreds of German local authorities that issued Notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922. The authorization to print was essentially self-granted; there was no central approval process, which is why denominations and designs vary so wildly across issues from this period. This particular 2 Mark value sits at an awkward transitional point: by mid-1922, 2 Mark was already losing purchasing power so fast that many similar municipal issues became worthless within weeks of printing.