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1.50 Mark Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank zu Grünberg i. Schlesien |
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| Value | 1.50 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a silhouetted park scene in black on a grey-blue ground, showing the Kriegerdenkmal (war memorial column) rising between two large bare-branched trees, enclosed by a low ornamental fence, with the label 'Kriegerdenkmal' inscribed within the scene. Decorative scroll borders with stylised vine and grape-cluster motifs in blue flank the central image on both sides. The denomination '1,50 Mk.' appears in blue in the upper corners, the header reads 'Obst- und Weinstadt' in Gothic script, and the town name 'Grünberg' is set in bold Gothic letters across the lower panel, with the registered design number 'D.R.G.M. 795 679.' printed below the frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Obst- und Weinstadt 1,50 Mk. Kriegerdenkmal Grünberg D. R. G. M. 795 679. |
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Grünberg in Silesia — now Zielona Góra, Poland — issued this notgeld through its municipal bank during the post-WWI currency chaos that forced hundreds of German towns to print their own emergency fractional denominations. The 1.50 Mark value is itself a telling detail: it exists because coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted, and the gap between one and two marks was genuinely disruptive to daily commerce.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was a well-established regional printer with long experience in securities and municipal printing — a deliberate choice over the cheaper lithographers that many smaller towns settled for.