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60 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Greiffenberg in Schlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Grey and blue-green note with matching Art Nouveau pilaster borders at left and right. The central vignette illustrates the Silesian folk legend of Rübezahl and the glass dealer: a frightened tradesman recoils before the giant mountain spirit, rendered as a turbulent bearded face emerging from swirling mists above a forested mountain landscape, his pack and wares scattered on the ground. The title inscription is divided between a cartouche at the top and a lower panel. |
| Reverse lettering | Rübezahl und der Glashändler (Translation: Rübezahl and the glass dealer) |
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Greiffenberg in Schlesien — now Gryfów Śląski in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld through its municipal savings bank during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar inflation years. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific regional Notgeld printers of the period, and the use of handmade watermarked paper here was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure, unusual for a denomination this low.
The 60 Pfennig value is an odd one — most municipal issuers favored round figures — suggesting it was calibrated to fill a specific gap in local transaction needs.