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50 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Grünberg |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The central field carries a bold silhouette vignette in the Jugendstil manner, also signed by W.H. Lippert, portraying a humorous tavern scene in which a portly innkeeper lathers the faces of two seated Berliner travellers, illustrating a local anecdote. Teal and white foliate ribbon-scroll panels border the composition on left and right, each carrying the denomination '50 Pf.' at the upper corners. The lower margin bears the bilingual legend 'Obst- und Weinstadt Grünberg' in large Gothic lettering, with the patent notice 'D.R.G.M. 795679 u. D.R.P. ungemeldet' printed beneath the border. |
| Reverse lettering | Wie ein Grünberger Wirt einst zwei Berliner mit Baiserschaum einseifste Obst- und Weinstadt Grünberg D.R.G.M. 795679 u. D.R.P. ungemeldet. |
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Grünberg — today Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a Silesian wine-growing town whose Stadtbank issued this Notgeld during the inflationary emergency coinage shortages of the First World War period. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott was a well-established Glogau printing house with deep roots in Silesian commercial printing; the Wiskott half of the firm had a long history in securities and document work, which gave even small municipal emergency notes from this press a noticeably professional finish.
The designer credit to Wh. Lippert is rare enough to be worth noting — most Notgeld of this type went unsigned.