50 Pfennig

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.