25 Pfennig

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.