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100 Pfennigs Grünberg in Hessen
| Issuer | Stadt Grünberg in Hessen (Municipality of Grünberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1222 1922 700-JAHRFEIER DER STADT GRÜNBERG i.H. 100 PFG. HÄTTEN WIR ALLE EINEN GLAUBEN, GOTT VND GEMEINEN NUTZ VOR AUGEN, ACH, GUTEN FRIED- VND RECHT, GERICHT, EIN EHLEN, MAAS- VND GEWICHT, EINERLEY MÜNTZ VND GUT GELD, SO STÜND ES WOHL IN ALLER WELT. GRÜNBERG, DEN 9. MÄRZ 1922. DER BVRGERMEISTER |
| Reverse description | A panoramic engraved vignette of Grünberg as it appeared around 1600, showing the walled town with church spires and towers set against a hilly landscape. A standing female figure of Minerva holding a staff is placed to the right. Latin and German inscriptions frame the scene above and below. |
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Grünberg in Hessen is a small Hessian market town — population well under ten thousand even today — and its 1922 notgeld issue is a product of the broader municipal emergency currency wave that swept German towns during the hyperinflationary spiral following the First World War. Gebrüder Parcus of Munich were prolific notgeld printers during this period, supplying dozens of municipalities with competently produced small-denomination paper, and their work here is characteristic of the firm's commercial output.
The 100 Pfennig denomination places this squarely in the transitional phase of 1922, when inflation had already badly eroded purchasing power but full hyperinflationary collapse was still months away.