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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | A woodcut-style vignette captioned 'i. Jahre 1383' illustrates a medieval ecclesiastical scene in which a bishop bearing a crozier and attendant clerics witness a eucharistic miracle at an altar, rendered in fine black line engraving against a plain ground. The denomination '50' appears in white numerals within dark hexagonal cartouches at each lateral border, with 'Pfennig' inscribed beneath each, set against a salmon-pink ornamental underprint of stylised foliate motifs. A lower text panel in archaic Low German script carries a descriptive legend relating to the miracle of the Holy Blood of Wilsnack. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig i. Jahre 1383 Zyr hold de Bischop misse vnde fúth ein merckliche groth wunderwerck in der einigen hostighen. |
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Wilsnack — officially Bad Wilsnack from 1936 — was a minor pilgrimage town in the Prignitz region of Brandenburg, historically significant for the Wunderblut cult centered on its Nikolaikirche. By 1922 it was a small spa municipality with no particular financial weight, which is precisely why it issued Notgeld: the Reichsbank's chronic small-denomination coin shortage forced even towns of a few thousand residents to print their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving.
These municipal issues were self-liquidating by design, redeemable within a fixed period after which they became void — and, incidentally, collectible.