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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinderat Grünhain (City Council of Grünhain, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Mark 1267 1917 Die Stadt Grünhain zur Erinnerung an ihr 650 jähr. Stadtjubiläum am 3. Mai 1917 Gültig bis 30. April 1922 Der Stadtgemeinderat WIEDEMANNSCHE DRUCKEREI A-G. SAALFELD i. THÜR. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a woodcut-style panoramic vignette in warm brown tones occupying the central field, reproducing a historical bird's-eye view of the Cistercian monastery of Grünhain in its ruined state as recorded in 1632, captioned in the lower-left quadrant of the image. A period verse in continuous Gothic Fraktur script runs along all four outer margins, encircling the central vignette. |
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Grünhain is a small Saxon town whose population in 1917 barely justified its own municipal council, let alone its own emergency currency. This note is Notgeld in the strictest wartime sense — issued because the Reichsbank simply could not keep small-denomination metal coinage in circulation once copper, nickel, and zinc were being consumed by the war effort. Hundreds of German municipalities did the same, but most were larger urban centers; Grünhain's participation reflects how deeply the coinage shortage had penetrated into minor rural communities by mid-war.
Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG in Saalfeld handled the printing — a Thuringian commercial press, not a specialist security printer, which makes the inclusion of a watermark somewhat notable for a note at this level of issuer.