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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 description | The obverse is printed on a salmon-pink vertical-stripe underprint within a double-ruled black border with an outer olive-green frame. At the top, the issuing authority is given in Gothic blackletter script: 'Die Stadhauptkasse Pritzwalk', followed by a promise-to-pay text and the issue date 'den 25. Febr. 1922'. To the left, a vignette of the city's heraldic shield, surmounted by a mural crown and containing a stylised tree with a deer, is rendered in brown and green. To the right, a cartouche bearing the denomination '75 Pfg.' in bold red numerals is flanked by a panoramic silhouette of the Pritzwalk townscape with church spires. The lower margin carries a serial number at left and the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1922' at right, with two facsimile signatures of the Magistrat below the date. |
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| Reverse lettering | Drauf hat er die Krewer / so zu markte reiseten / ausgepochet undt arg geschunden |
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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.