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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Forst (Lausitz), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and black on cream paper within a red rectangular border. The central panel carries a large ornate numeral '25' set within a circular guilloche vignette against a hatched background; to the left, the city arms of Forst bearing a stag's antler appear in a framed panel with the Gothic-script inscription 'Stadt-Kreis'; to the right, a second panel displays a weaving shuttle or bobbin motif with the inscription 'Forst (Lausitz)'. The lower centre contains the issuing authority text, place, date of 1 June 1920, and a manuscript signature on behalf of Der Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and black within a red rectangular border. The denomination '25 Pf' appears in bold red at both upper corners, flanking a serial number printed in red. The central vignette shows a panoramic view of the town of Forst with church steeples and factory chimneys rising above a landscape of reeds and foliage, with a wooden clog in the foreground alluding to the local textile industry. Below the vignette, a decorative cartouche carries a four-line German verse in Gothic script. |
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Forst (Lausitz) was a significant textile manufacturing center in the Niederlausitz, and its Magistrat issued notgeld during the severe coin shortages of 1919–1921 that followed postwar demobilization and the disruption of normal Reichsbank supply chains. The Gra:F11.7b designation places this within a numbered sub-variety sequence, suggesting the Forst series was substantial enough to attract collector attention even at the time — the notgeld collector boom of 1920–1921 was real and commercially exploited by many issuing municipalities.
Whether this particular piece circulated genuinely or was printed primarily for the collector trade is the question that haunts most 1920 German municipal issues.