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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 Luftkurort und Eisenmoorbad Wilsnack 75 Wunderblut Kirche Baubeginn 1384 Wirkung des Wunderblutes. Wilsnack gültig bis 20. Juni 1922 Der Magistrat Bürgermeister Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and orange tones on a cream ground. A large central rectangular vignette, rendered in a woodcut style, illustrates a medieval scene from 1383 in which figures are shown cleansing an altar, referencing the legend of the Wilsnack miracle; the inscription "i. Jahre 1383" appears within the vignette at lower left. The denomination numeral "75" is repeated in white within dark hexagonal panels at each corner, with "Pfennig" lettered below each, and the lateral borders are filled with stylised Art Nouveau foliate ornament in orange. A lower text panel carries a Middle Low German quotation relating to the miraculous event. |
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Wilsnack — today Bad Wilsnack — was a medieval pilgrimage site in Brandenburg, drawing visitors for centuries to venerate the Wunderblut, a set of bleeding hosts said to have survived a church fire in 1383. By 1922, the town was issuing Notgeld like hundreds of other small German municipalities, its local scrip a direct consequence of the hyperinflationary spiral that made Reichsbank denominations functionally useless for small transactions within months of printing.
The Magistrat series is unremarkable as a printing production, but Wilsnack's issues tend to lean into the pilgrimage history — a reliable choice for Notgeld collectors who sort by theme rather than issuer.