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1.50 Mark Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank zu Grünberg i. Schlesien |
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| Value | 1.50 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The central panel, set against a fine guilloche underprint, carries the issuing authority's name and the denomination written out as 'Eine Mark und 50 Pfennig' in ornate Gothic blackletter script. Flanking the central text panel on both sides are symmetrical vignettes in green, black, and blue, each containing the town's coat of arms — a castle with towers and a heraldic bust — surrounded by decorative grapevine motifs with clusters of blue grapes, a reference to Grünberg's viticultural heritage. The lower portion contains a yellow guilloche underprint panel with a date line, account designation 'Konto D', and a serial number, with the denomination '1 M. 50' repeated in the lower corners; the printer's imprint 'Flemming – Wiskott A:G Glogau' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtbank zu Grünberg i/Sch. zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Eine Mark und 50 Pfennig 1 M. 50 Grünberg i. Schl. d. Konto D FLEMMING – WISKOTT A:G GLOGAU. |
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Grünberg in Silesia — now Zielona Góra, Poland — issued this notgeld through its municipal bank during the post-WWI currency chaos that forced hundreds of German towns to print their own emergency fractional denominations. The 1.50 Mark value is itself a telling detail: it exists because coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted, and the gap between one and two marks was genuinely disruptive to daily commerce.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was a well-established regional printer with long experience in securities and municipal printing — a deliberate choice over the cheaper lithographers that many smaller towns settled for.