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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Grünberg (Schlesien), Magistrat |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Grünberg municipal coat of arms — a turreted city gate in teal and white on a pink-salmon ground — flanked left by a still-life vignette of fruits, grapes, and a wine glass symbolising the city's viticulture, and right by a ram's head amid agricultural implements. The denomination '50' appears in large bold numerals at upper left and upper right, with the issuer inscription arched across the top border. The lower panel carries the validity date at left and the facsimile signatures of the Magistrat at right, with the printer's imprint 'J. FIEDLER NACHF. GRÜNBERG/SCHL.' along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical registers on a salmon-pink ground: at left, a female harvest worker in traditional dress stands amid vines; at centre, a vignette of the Schillerhöhe, a rustic two-storey timber-framed house set among trees against a blue sky, inscribed 'Schillerhöhe' above; at right, a male vintner carries a wooden crate. Shield-shaped denomination cartouches bearing '50' are placed at upper left and upper right. The denomination legend in bold Gothic lettering reads 'Fünfzig Pfennig' across the lower margin. |
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Grünberg in Silesia — today Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a wine-producing town with a long textile history, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to locally printed Notgeld when small-change shortages became acute after 1914. This note is interesting precisely because it was printed by a local firm, J. Fiedler Nachf., rather than sent to one of the larger specialty houses in Leipzig or Berlin. Handmade paper was an unusual substrate choice even for emergency issues, and likely reflects what was available locally rather than any deliberate aesthetic decision.
The Magistrat series from Grünberg is well-documented in the Grabowski-Mehl catalogues. Collector demand for Silesian Notgeld remains strong, partly because the region's post-1945 transfer to Poland gave these issues an additional layer of historical displacement.