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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Grünberg (Lower Silesia), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note printed in salmon-pink, teal, and dark blue. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Grünberg — a teal heraldic shield depicting a fortified gate with two towers — is flanked by two vignettes: to the left, a laden fruit and vine display with a goblet, and to the right, agricultural produce including vegetables and a ram's head, both referencing the town's identity as a fruit and wine city. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large Gothic script at upper left and upper right, with the city name 'Grünberg/Schl.' in matching script across the top centre; at lower left the validity inscription reads 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921.' and at lower right 'Der Magistrat:' with two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | Am Hungerturm mit Blick auf das Rathaus Fünfzig Pfennig |
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Grünberg in Silesia — now Zielona Góra in Poland — was a regional center of the linen and wool trade, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its Magistrat resorted to locally printed Notgeld to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage driving everyday commerce to a standstill. What makes this particular note worth noting is the material: genuine handmade paper, sourced and used deliberately rather than as a stopgap, giving surviving examples a texture and thickness that machine-pressed municipal issues entirely lack.
J. Fiedler Nachf. was a local printing house — not a specialist securities printer — which accounts for the relatively modest production values typical of Silesian municipal issues from this period.