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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Wilsnack |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a polychrome illustration of the Wunderblut Kirche (Church of the Miraculous Blood) in Wilsnack, a Gothic brick structure with a red tiled roof, flanked by trees and figures in the foreground; a caption below reads 'Wunderblut Kirche · Baubeginn 1384 / Wirkung des Wunderblutes'. The denomination '75' appears in the upper corners within decorative frames, with two circular seal vignettes — the town seal of Wilsnack at left and a figure seal at right — set against an ornate red and dark brown border. Lower left records validity 'Wilsnack / gültig bis 20. Juni / 1922' and lower right carries the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfennig i. Jahre 1383 Zvr vnterrichtet her Johan den Bischop alle gescheffte wo de gschehen weren. |
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Wilsnack — officially Bad Wilsnack since 1929 — was a small Brandenburg pilgrimage town whose medieval reputation rested entirely on three bleeding communion wafers reportedly found undamaged after a church fire in 1383. By 1922 the town was issuing Notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities, driven by the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued the early Weimar Republic before hyperinflation rendered the entire exercise moot within a year.
The Magistrat series is not among the more elaborately produced Brandenburg Notgeld issues — no silk, no leather, no wood pulp novelties.