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75 Pfennig Grünberg in Hessen
| Issuer | Stadt Grünberg in Hessen |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within a hexagonal frame shows a mounted medieval knight on a white horse, raising a banner, in polychrome letterpress. Diagonal ray bands in gold and black radiate from the corners bearing inscriptions. Date "9. März 1922" and Bürgermeister signature appear at lower left and right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Two octagonal vignettes in bold woodcut-style black print on a tan ground: at left, the Rathaus with a fountain (Brunnen) in the foreground; at right, a street view of the Antoniter Kloster as it appeared circa 1600. Diagonal gold ribbon bands connect the vignettes and carry the labelling inscriptions. |
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Grünberg in Hessen issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar Republic, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany filled the void left by a collapsing reichsmark. Local printing was the norm, not the exception, and Metzger's press in Grünberg handled this series in-house rather than contracting to one of the major specialist printers like Giesecke & Devrient.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is an odd one — a practical sign that issuers were calibrating denominations to actual transaction gaps rather than following any standardized scheme.