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250 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Forst (Lausitz) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 250 000 Marks (250 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN über Zweihundertfünfzigtausend 250 000 * Mark * 250 000 Dieser Schein gilt nur im Bereiche des Stadtkreises Forst (Lausitz) und verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht bis zum 31. Oktober 1923 zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Forst (Lausitz), den 11. August 1923. Der Magistrat Flemming-Wiskott AG. Glogau, Berlin, Breslau. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in cream-buff paper, with the obverse design showing through as a faint mirror impression due to the thin paper stock. No additional text, vignette, or security elements are applied to this side. |
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Forst (Lausitz) was a textile-manufacturing town in Lower Lusatia, and its municipal administration — the Magistrat — issued this 250,000 Mark note at the height of the hyperinflationary spiral of 1923, when Reichsbank notes were arriving too slowly and in insufficient denominations to cover basic daily transactions. Local authorities across Germany were legally permitted, if not always officially encouraged, to issue Notgeld as emergency liquidity.
Flemming & Wiskott, based out of Glogau, were among the more prolific printers of municipal emergency currency during this period. The dual signatures of Hellsinger and Dr. Kühn represent the civic authorization required to give the note nominal legal standing within the town's jurisdiction.