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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Grünberg in Schlesien (City of Grünberg, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a decorative vine-leaf and grape-cluster border framing the entire composition. The yellow header panel bears the denomination numerals '75' at left and right flanking the town name 'Grünberg' in bold Gothic lettering, with 'i. Schlesien' below. The central vignette presents the coloured municipal coat of arms — a white castellated gate with two red-capped towers and a crescent moon on a blue field, wreathed in foliage — flanked by two subsidiary vignettes: at left, a figure operating a hand loom (labelled 'Tuchweberei') and at right, a wine barrel amid vine rows (labelled 'Weinbau'), with the legend 'Obst und Wein-Stadt des Ostens' and validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dez. 1921 / Der Magistrat:' below the arms, followed by two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Cream-ground central panel enclosed within a dark border carrying a vine-leaf and grape-cluster underprint, with denomination numerals '75' in white at the upper corners and 'Pfg' at the lower corners. The main vignette is a bold silhouette scene — rendered in black — of a horned, tailed devil-like creature seated on a barrel and clinking a tankard with a seated human figure, evoking a wine-drinking allegory; a small pink devil figure appears in the left border and a small vignette in the right border, both attributed to the designer Schleinitz. A rhyming couplet in Gothic script runs above and below the central image. |
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Grünberg — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a wine-producing town in Lower Silesia, one of the few such regions in Prussia, and its civic identity was bound up in that distinction. This 75 Pfennig note is part of a Notgeld series issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years, when municipal and commercial issuers flooded the market with locally printed emergency fractional currency. The series was designed by Georg Schleinitz, whose name appears on several Silesian Notgeld commissions from this period.
Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony handled the printing — a regional commercial press that took on considerable Notgeld work between 1920 and 1922.