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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 20 June 1922 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a panoramic view of a half-timbered building complex in Wilsnack with figures strolling in the foreground, framed by an ornate scroll-work border in red and black. Denomination numerals '75' appear in bold white type within dark corner cartouches at upper left and right, flanked on each side by circular town seal impressions. A ribbon scroll at the top carries the town name in Gothic blackletter script, while the lower panel bears the validity date and Bürgermeister signature beneath the denomination legend in a dark reserve. |
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| Reverse description | The central white-ground vignette, captioned 'i. Jahre 1383', renders a woodcut-style scene of mounted horsemen with attendants crossing a river, referencing a medieval historical episode tied to Wilsnack. The denomination '75' is set in white on black hexagonal panels at left and right, each below ornate salmon-toned decorative pilasters with scroll and leaf motifs. A lower text panel in a scroll cartouche carries a Middle Low German inscription relating the legendary flight of the bishop. |
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Bad Wilsnack, a small Brandenburg town, issued notgeld in the early 1920s as Germany's hyperinflation ground down the availability of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage. Municipal notgeld from this period was technically illegal tender beyond the issuing locality, redeemable only through the Magistrat that issued it — and in practice, many small-town issues were never fully redeemed, leaving collectors to absorb the remainder.
The DeNG reference places this within the 1922 Brandenburg municipal series. Wilsnack produced multiple denomination variants under the same issue number, of which this 75 Pfennig is one of nineteen sub-variants catalogued.