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25 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank zu Grünberg i. Sch. |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtbank zu Grünberg i/Sch. zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Grünberg i. Schl., d. Konto A 25 Pf. FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and blue on white paper with a bold decorative border of scrolling arabesques enclosing blue grape cluster motifs in the side columns. The upper register carries the inscription "Obst- und Weinstadt" in large Gothic blackletter, flanked by blue numeral "25" in corner cartouches. The central vignette is a finely executed line-art landscape scene showing a timber-framed mountain inn or rural building (labelled "Berghaus" at upper left and "Kötschau" at upper right) shaded by a large tree, with a figure and animal in the right foreground. The town name "Grünberg" is set in large decorative Gothic script across the lower panel, and the registration mark "D.R.G.M. 795 679." is printed in the bottom margin. |
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Grünberg in Schlesien — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a centre of the Silesian wine trade, an oddity for a German-speaking region, and the Stadtbank zu Grünberg was a municipal institution, not a Reichsbank affiliate. Notes like this 25 Pfennig piece belong to the vast Notgeld issues that flooded Germany during the small-coin shortage of 1917–1922, printed locally to fill gaps the central currency system could not.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a prolific regional printer for Silesian Notgeld, handling dozens of municipal commissions across the province.