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1.50 Mark Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Grünberg |
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| Size | 89 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette is rendered as a black silhouette scene set before a bookshop ('Buchhandlung') sign, showing a bookseller leaning over a counter presenting an open volume to a stout female customer clutching eggs, with a small dog at her feet — a humorous local genre scene alluding to Grünberg's trade in wine and wool rather than books. Teal acanthus-scroll ornamental panels frame the composition on either side, with the denomination '1,50 M' at the upper corners. A lower text panel carries a local dialect quotation in decorative Fraktur script, and the designer's monogram 'W.H. Lippert' appears at lower right within the central frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Obst- Grünberg und wein- Stadt Buchhandlung "Was will Er? die Grünberger lesen Wein und Wolle, aber Bücher!!??" 1,50 M D.R.G.M. 795679 u. D.R.P. angemeldet. |
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Grünberg — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a mid-sized Silesian town whose municipal bank issued notgeld during the severe coin shortages that plagued Germany from 1916 onward. The 1.50 Mark denomination is an awkward fractional value, almost certainly chosen to address a very specific gap in local circulation rather than follow any standard series logic.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. operated out of Glogau, roughly 60 kilometers northeast, and handled a substantial volume of Silesian emergency currency during this period. Designer credit to Wh. Lippert appears on other Flemming-Wiskott productions from the same years.