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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Grünberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 30 June 1922 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black, grey, and terracotta on a salmon-coloured ground. At centre, a large oval vignette rendered in silhouette style shows five figures seated around a tavern table beneath a window, evoking the wine-growing culture of Grünberg; below the oval, the town's heraldic coat of arms is set within a decorative scroll bearing the legend 'Notgeld der Obst- und Weinstadt'. The anniversary dates '1222 / 1922' appear in a cartouche at the top centre, flanked by the denomination '50' in bold gothic numerals at upper left and right, with 'Grünberg/Schl.' inscribed in gothic script to the right and the validity clause 'Gültig bis 30. Juni 1922' and issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' with a manuscript signature at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed entirely in a bold silhouette style in black, grey, and terracotta on a salmon ground, filling the note face with a dramatic scene commemorating the Grünberg witch trials of 1663–1665. On the left, tall flames rendered in terracotta and white consume a stake, while silhouetted figures of condemned persons in chains are visible at lower centre; a procession of guards carrying crosses and halberds advances from the middle ground, with robed clerical or judicial figures at right. The caption 'Hexenprozesse 1663–1665.' is lettered in white along the lower border, and the monogram 'der' appears at lower right. |
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Grünberg was a mid-sized textile town in Lower Silesia, and its 1922 Notgeld issues came at the peak of Germany's inflation spiral — the period when municipal authorities across the Reich were printing their own emergency fractional currency because Reichsbank notes couldn't keep up with demand for small change. Julius Fiedler Nachfolger was a local printing house, meaning this note was conceived, designed, and produced entirely within the town that issued it.
The Fiedler firm's locally printed Notgeld tends to show more variation in ink saturation across the series than commercially printed equivalents from the major specialist houses.