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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Grünberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 1222 1922 Grünberg/Schl. Notgeld der Obst- und Weinstadt Gültig bis 30. Juni 1922 Der Magistrat: DRUCK v. JUL. FIEDLER NACHF. GRÜNBERG i. SCHL. |
| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a full-bleed silhouette vignette in the Scherenschnitt style, executed in black, grey, and orange on a dark ground, illustrating an armed skirmish among soldiers and combatants in a wooded landscape with trees and undergrowth rendered in stylised form. The scene commemorates the Battle of Lessen Forest of 1478 between the men of Grünberg and those of Crossen. A caption in Gothic script runs along the lower margin identifying the depicted historical event, and the designer's monogram ja appears at the lower right corner. |
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Grünberg — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a center of the Silesian wool and textile trade, and its municipal notgeld issues of the early 1920s were printed locally rather than sourced from the major Leipzig or Berlin printers that supplied most German towns during the inflation-era emergency currency surge. Julius Fiedler Nachfolger was a local print house, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of these Grünberg pieces relative to the more elaborate notgeld from larger municipalities.
The 1922 date places this firmly in the transitional phase between the controlled notgeld of 1918–1921 and the hyperinflationary collapse that rendered such small denominations worthless within months.