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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within an arched frame shows the Wunderblut-Kirche (Church of the Miraculous Blood) with figures in the foreground, framed by decorative guilloche borders. Two circular town seals in red flank the central image left and right. Denomination numerals '50' appear in upper corners within dark cartouches, with validity date and Bürgermeister facsimile signature in lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig i Jahre 1383 Zyr vindet de kerthere de hillighen dry hostighen vp dem Altare mit blode bevloten vnd hold misse. |
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Bad Wilsnack — a tiny Brandenburg town that spent the medieval period trading heavily on the cult of the Wunderblut, bleeding communion hosts that drew pilgrims from across northern Europe — found itself, like hundreds of small German municipalities, issuing emergency scrip during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s. This Notgeld was a fiscal stopgap, printed when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted as metal values overtook face values.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed in short runs by local or regional printers, often on whatever paper stock was available, and withdrawn once Rentenmark stabilization took hold in late 1923.