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75 Pfennig

Issuer Magistrat der Stadt Grünberg (Lower Silesia)
Year 1921
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Composition Paper (handmade paper)
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Obverse description The municipal arms of Grünberg — a city gate with towers and vine ornamentation on a shield — occupies the central vignette, flanked on either side by the denomination numerals '75' in large Gothic script. The dark upper panel bears the town name 'Grünberg / Schl.' in bold Fraktur lettering beneath the epithet 'Obst- und Weinstadt'. A lower panel carries the validity date and the issuing authority signature line of Der Magistrat.
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Reverse lettering BACHVS MERCVRIVS
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Grünberg — now Zielona Góra in present-day Poland — was a modest Silesian wine-producing town, and its municipal authority was among hundreds across Weimar Germany forced to print emergency Kleingeld notes after postwar coin shortages stripped everyday commerce of workable small change. J. Fiedler was a local printing firm, not a specialist security printer, and the handmade paper substrate reflects the improvised procurement that characterized provincial Notgeld production in 1921.

The DeNG reference suffix "1a-7/7" suggests this is the complete seventh type within the first Grünberg series — collectors assembling full runs find the later issues in this sequence consistently harder to locate than the earlier ones.

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