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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Grünberg (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette rendered in silhouette style shows four townspeople seated around a table with drinking vessels, evoking a tavern scene, with the city arms of Grünberg — a brick gate tower — at the foot of the oval. The background is filled with decorative woodcut-style foliage and grape vine motifs in black and terracotta tones, with large numeral '50' at left and right. The commemorative dual date '1222 / 1922' appears at the top centre within a cartouche, and the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 30. Juni 1922' is set in the lower-left panel alongside a manuscript signature for the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse lettering | Einwanderung der Flamen und Franken (Wollenweberei und Weinbau, 13. Jahrh.) Grünberger |
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Grünberg in Silesia was one of the most prolific notgeld-issuing municipalities in the region, and this 1922 Pfennig-denomination piece belongs to the second wave of emergency currency — by which point many towns were commissioning notes as much for collector revenue as for genuine monetary need. The practice was widespread enough that the Reichsbank eventually moved to suppress it.
Julius Fiedler Nachfolger was a local printing firm, which kept production entirely within the town — an arrangement that suited smaller municipalities looking to control costs and turnaround times.