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1000 Ost Markių
| Issuer | Lietuvos Ūkio Bankas (Lithuanian Economy Bank) |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Lietuvos Ūkio Bankas Vilnius Kaunas Šio čekio padavėjui Lietuvos Ūkio Bankas ir visi jo Skyriai išmoka Vieną Tūkstantį Vokiečių arba Ost Markių |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse with a large unprinted brown central panel surrounded by a multicolour guilloche border in red and green wavy-line patterns, creating a decorative frame with no additional text or vignette. |
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Lietuvos Ūkio Bankas was a short-lived commercial institution operating in the earliest years of Lithuanian independence, issuing its own emergency scrip at a moment when the new state had no stable national currency and the German Ostmark — left over from wartime occupation — was still the dominant medium of exchange. These notes circulated in a monetary vacuum: the Lithuanian litas would not arrive until 1922, and in the interim, municipalities, cooperatives, and private banks all issued their own instruments with varying degrees of public trust.
The Ūkio Bankas series remains poorly documented. Surviving specimens are rare enough that provenance gaps are common.