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99 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wittenburg (City of Wittenburg, Mecklenburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black, blue, and yellow on a white ground, with silhouette vignettes of horse-drawn wagons and outriders arranged around all four borders, referencing the historical Anno 1763 ransom convoy. A central text panel within a yellow and blue guilloche border recounts in Gothic script the historical episode of sixteen four-horse wagons transporting one million thalers ransom money under armed guard through Wittenburg to Boizenburg. Below the text panel, the municipal coat of arms of Wittenburg — a castle tower surmounted by two bulls' heads on a yellow and blue field — is set within an ornamental cartouche. A Low German dialect inscription in a banner at the foot reads 'DE HARDEN DALERS SÜND NIK MIHR NU MAK WI NOTGELD UT PAPIER!' |
| Reverse lettering | ANNO 1763 SECHZEHN VIERSPÄNNIGE WAGEN MUSSTEN UNTER SCHARFER WACHT DAS LOESEGELD VON EINER MILLION THALER AUS SCHWERIN UEBER WITTENBURG GEN BOIZENBURG SCHAFFEN. - DA ERST LIESSEN DIE BRAUNSCHWEIGER STADT UND LAND WITTENBURG FREI: DE HARDEN DALERS SÜND NIK MIHR NU MAK WI NOTGELD UT PAPIER! H. PINKEPANK |
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Wittenburg's 99 Pfennig note is a product of the German Kleingeldersatz emergency — the acute coin shortage of the early Weimar period that pushed hundreds of small municipalities into issuing their own fractional paper. The odd denomination was deliberate: 99 Pfennig sat just below the 1 Mark threshold that triggered stricter Reichsbank oversight of local emergency issues, a loophole many towns quietly exploited.
H. Pinkepank, a local printer rather than one of the major Notgeld houses, handled both design and production — which accounts for the distinctly parochial character of the issue.