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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Grünberg (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and black on cream paper with a decorative oak-leaf and acorn border framing the entire note. A large landscape vignette in fine letterpress occupies the central field, rendered in black ink, showing the Marienkapelle (Chapel of Our Lady) set amid dense vineyard rows and trees, with the chapel's steeple rising above the foliage. The place name "Obst- und Weinstadt Grünberg i. Schl." and the numeral "75" in green appear in the upper portion, with the caption "Marienkapelle" in a cartouche at lower centre and the printer's imprint "OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN." along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Obst- und Weinstadt Grünberg i. Schl. 75 Marienkapelle OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN. |
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Grünberg — now Zielona Góra in western Poland — was a significant wine-producing town in Lower Silesia, and its Notgeld issues from this period often reflected that local identity with some enthusiasm. The Parcus brothers in Munich were one of the more prolific and competent Notgeld printers of the early 1920s, handling commissions from municipalities across Germany during the coin shortage that followed the First World War.
The 75 Pfennig denomination was among the more practical Notgeld values — large enough to be useful, common enough to circulate freely before the hyperinflationary spiral made the entire small-denomination emergency series obsolete by late 1923.