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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Grünberg in Schlesien (Grünberg i. Schl.) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground note printed in multicolour letterpress, with the city arms of Grünberg at centre — a blue shield bearing a white fortified wall with two towers surmounted by a mural crown — flanked by two oval vignettes set against a dense grapevine underprint: at left, a classical female figure holding a sheaf of grain; at right, a putto bearing a cluster of grapes. The validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921' appears on a cartouche beneath the arms, while the denomination 'Fünfundsiebzig Pfennig' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Cream-ground note with a green grapevine-leaf decorative border framing a detailed black letterpress vignette of the Ring (market square) of Grünberg i. Schl., with a row of bourgeois townhouses, a church steeple, market traders, and cobblestone street receding into the centre. The overprinted numeral '75' in green appears in the upper right field, and the caption 'Ring' is set below the vignette in italic script. The printer's imprint 'OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN.' runs along the lower margin outside the border. |
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Grünberg in Schlesien — now Zielona Góra in Poland — was a long-established center of the Silesian wine trade, and the town's Notgeld issues from the early 1920s leaned heavily into that local identity. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial volume of German municipal emergency currency during this period, and their lithographic output for smaller towns tends to be notably cleaner than the in-house printings many communities resorted to when paper and skilled labor were both scarce.
The 75 Pfennig denomination sits in the middle of the standard Notgeld range for this issuer, referenced under DeNG 1/2#489 with multiple sub-varieties cataloged at positions .4 through .7.