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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Grünberg in Schlesien (Zielona Góra) |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld issue printed by offset lithography, with a dark upper band carrying the legend in white Gothic script and a dark lower band with the denomination in large white lettering. The central vignette presents the coloured municipal coat of arms of Grünberg — a walled castle with two red-capped towers flanking a crowned gate — surmounted by a golden mural crown, set against a lush background of grapevines with red fruit clusters. Two oval cartouches flank the shield, each enclosing a classically rendered putto in relief style: the left figure holds a bowl or dish, while the right carries a heavy bunch of grapes, alluding to the city's identity as a fruit and wine town. A scrolled banner beneath the shield bears the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Obst- und Weinstadt Grünberg i. Schl. Löbtenz OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN. |
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Grünberg was the center of Silesian wine production — one of the northernmost wine regions in Europe — and the town's notgeld series leaned heavily into that identity. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich produced some of the most technically accomplished municipal emergency currency of the Weimar inflation period, and their work for Grünberg reflects that. The firm handled both design and chromolithographic printing, which gave smaller municipalities access to quality well beyond what local printers could deliver.
Notgeld from Silesian towns has become harder to source since the postwar expulsion of the German population and the region's transfer to Poland as Zielona Góra.