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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Grünberg in Schlesien (Lower Silesia) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground vignette in Jugendstil style with the city arms of Grünberg at centre, a shield charged with a fortified gateway and towers surmounted by a mural crown, set against a dense background of grapevines with clusters of red fruit. Two allegorical figures in oval cartouches flank the arms — a youth with a fish to the left and a figure wreathed in grapes to the right — evoking the town's identity as a fruit and wine centre. The denomination 'Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig' is inscribed in Gothic script along the lower edge, with the issuer title 'Gutschein der Stadt Grünberg i./Schl.' across the top and the validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921' in a cartouche below the arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Obst- und Weinstadt Grünberg i. Schl. Gesamtansicht v. Ziegelberg OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN. |
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Grünberg in Schlesien — now Zielona Góra in Poland — was a wine-producing town, unusual for Silesia, and much of the Notgeld issued by German municipalities in the early 1920s inflation period leaned heavily on local identity for its imagery. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of municipalities that lacked local printing capacity.
The DeNG reference places this within the 1921–1923 Kleingeldscheine issues, produced to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage as inflation eroded metal's purchasing power faster than the mint could respond.