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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadhauptkasse Pritzwalk (City of Pritzwalk) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadhauptkasse Pritzwalk zahle dem Ueberbringer dieser Platzanweisung: Pritzwalk, den 25. Febr. 1922 der Magistrat: 75 Pfg. Gültig bis 1. Juli 1922. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on an uncoloured background within a double-ruled rectangular border. A large central vignette in the manner of a woodcut illustration renders a scene of armed conflict among several figures in period dress, set against a wooded landscape with fallen combatants in the foreground. Above the vignette, a banner in Gothic blackletter reads 'Drauf hat er die Krewer / so zu markte', and a continuation text below reads 'reiseten / ausgepochet undt arg geschunden', together forming a narrative verse referring to a historical or legendary episode associated with Pritzwalk. |
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Pritzwalk is a small town in the Prignitz region of Brandenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, it issued Notgeld not out of genuine emergency but to meet a practical shortfall in small-denomination coinage driven by postwar inflation. The 75 Pfennig denomination is specific to this series — an odd value that suggests the issuer was covering exact change requirements for local services or transit rather than issuing decorative collector pieces, though the Prignitz issues attracted both audiences.
The reference DeNG 1/2#1077 covers three distinct design variants (suffixes .1 through .3), all within the same 1922 municipal authorization.