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1 Mark
| Issuer | City of Grünberg (Lower Silesia), Magistrat |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0489.3-5/6 |
| Obverse description | Vivid red and grey letterpress design with two wine-growers in traditional dress flanking a central vignette of the Grünberg municipal coat of arms — a fortified gate with towers set within an ornate grapevine border. The denomination '1 Mark' appears in stylised script at lower left and right corners. A grey panel at the foot carries the validity inscription and issuing authority. |
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| Reverse description | Dark-toned silhouette scene rendered in black against a blue night-sky ground, showing figures seated and standing beneath a large tree with hanging lanterns, evoking a summer wine-garden gathering. Decorative red lateral borders carry grapevine and cluster motifs with the denomination 'Ma 1 rk' at each corner. Verse inscriptions in period Gothic script appear in red panels at the top and bottom of the composition. |
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Grünberg (now Zielona Góra, Poland) was a minor textile and wine-producing town in Lower Silesia when it issued this note under the Notgeld emergency currency scheme that proliferated across German municipalities during the severe coin shortages of 1916–1922. Local magistrates were left to arrange printing independently, which accounts for the wide variation in print quality and paper stock across Silesian Notgeld issues.
Johannes Arndt in Jena was a commercial printer, not a specialist security firm — a detail that matters when authenticating the series, since the printing characteristics lack the anti-counterfeiting refinements found in notes produced by houses like Giesecke & Devrient.