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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Grünberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 89 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Obst und Weinstadt Grünberg Schl. 1922 (Translation: Emergency Money of the Fruit and Wine City Grünberg in Schlesien 1922) Gültig bis 30. Juni 1922 Der Magistrat: DRUCK v. JUL. FIEDLER NACHF. GRÜNBERG i. SCHL. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der diplomatische Bürgermeister (Translation: The Diplomatic Mayor) "Hier auf dem Ratstische liegen die Schlüssel, aber ich werde sie Ihnen unter keinen Umständen geben. Wollen Sie sie sich selbst nehmen so kann ich es freilich nicht hindern." (Translation: "Here on the council table lie the keys, but I will not give them to you under any circumstances. If you want to take them yourself, I cannot of course prevent it.") Einnahme der ersten schlesischen Stadt Grünberg durch Friedrich d. Grossen (1740) (Translation: Capture of the first Silesian city Grünberg by Frederick the Great (1740)) schmeckt |
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Grünberg, known today as Zielona Góra in western Poland, was a significant wine-producing town in Lower Silesia — an unusual distinction for a German region, and the source of considerable local pride. The 1922 Notgeld issues from the city leaned heavily into that identity. This piece was printed locally by Julius Fiedler Nachfolger, one of several regional printers who handled the flood of municipal emergency currency that German towns were compelled to produce as Reichsbank notes became increasingly inadequate during the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s.
The Fiedler firm's involvement kept production costs down and delivery fast — practical priorities when denominations could become economically irrelevant within weeks of printing.