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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Pritzwalk |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a salmon-pink hatched border framing a central woodcut-style vignette in dark brown. The scene illustrates a medieval knight in armour dragging a female figure toward a cave entrance set within a rocky, tree-lined landscape; the composition is executed in a manner reminiscent of early 16th-century German woodblock prints. A two-line Gothic inscription in the border reads across the top and bottom, forming a single narrative sentence referring to the abduction and imprisonment of a maiden. |
| Reverse lettering | Auch eyne magd schleppet er zu seyner höle undt håldt sie allhier für gefangen |
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Pritzwalk is a small town in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921–1923, its Stadtkasse issued its own emergency fractional notes when the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand for small-denomination currency. The 75 Pfennig denomination is an odd one — most Notgeld series stuck to round figures, and a 75 Pfennig value suggests the local authority was trying to cover a specific pricing gap in everyday transactions.
The DeNG reference indicating variants 1–4 within a single denomination means at least four distinct design or printing versions were produced, which is unusually prolific for a town of this size.