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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Grünberg in Schlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and ochre tones on an ochre-yellow paper ground. The upper portion carries the town name inscription "Grünberg i. Schlesien" in Gothic blackletter script flanking the municipal coat of arms at centre. A central vignette presents a townscape view of Grünberg's market square with the prominent church tower and surrounding civic buildings rendered in fine line engraving, framed by decorative vine and grape motifs on the left and right margins. The denomination numeral "25" appears in a solid black cartouche at lower left, with "Pfg" in a matching cartouche at lower right, and the text "Der Magistrat:" with a manuscript facsimile signature below occupies the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | JULIUS FIEDLER NACHFLG., GRÜNBERG SCHLES. Gültig bis 31. 12. 1921. 25 25 O Herr, gib Regen und Sonnenschein und für 20 Pfennig a Schöppel Wein. |
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Grünberg in Schlesien — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — issued this Notgeld piece in 1921, well into the postwar inflationary spiral that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Julius Fiedler Nachfolger was a local printer, and the Magistrat had no need to go elsewhere; the entire production, authorization, and distribution loop was municipal and self-contained.
The Silesian plebiscite had taken place in March 1921, and Grünberg itself, situated in the Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt rather than the contested Upper Silesian zone, was never at risk of transfer — but the political atmosphere of that spring still hung over every civic institution in the region.