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10 Pfennig - Grünberg
| Issuer | Grünberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Grünberg in Silesia depicted as a fortified city gate with two flanking towers, each featuring arched windows and decorative battlements. A crowned eagle's head is shown centrally above the gateway arch, serving as the heraldic charge of the city arms. The composition is rendered in bold relief with clear architectural detailing of the brickwork and the portcullis. The inscription GRÜNBERG SCHL. appears in raised Latin letters along the lower field, identifying the issuing municipality and its Silesian affiliation. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Grünberg — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a mid-sized wine-producing town in Lower Silesia when it issued this notgeld piece in 1919. Like hundreds of German municipalities that year, the city acted independently to fill a coin shortage caused by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar monetary chaos; the central government simply could not supply small-denomination coinage fast enough. Iron was the material of necessity, not choice — copper and nickel had been systematically stripped from civilian production since 1915.