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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Sorau (City of Sorau) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Emergency currency (Notgeld) issued by the City of Sorau in 1918, with the denomination 20 Mark rendered in bold letterpress typography at centre. The note carries municipal inscriptions and a serial number, set against a plain paper ground typical of wartime German local issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the legal tender text and validity conditions for the 20 Mark Notgeld issue, with the expiry date of 1 February 1919 stated in accordance with municipal regulations. Simple typographic layout consistent with German municipal emergency currency practice of the period. |
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Sorau was a mid-sized textile manufacturing town in Lower Lusatia — today Żary in western Poland — and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it issued notgeld to relieve a severe shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage driven by wartime metal hoarding and requisitioning. Municipal issues at this level were technically illegal under Reichsbank statutes but were tolerated out of sheer necessity.
The Stadt Sorau series is not among the more documented municipal issues of the period, and the printing arrangements are not firmly established in the standard references. Treat any specific printer attribution with caution.