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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Forst (Lausitz) - Der Magistrat |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 Marks (50 000) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in black on cream-coloured paper stock, enclosed within an ornate foliate border composed of interlocking scrollwork and leaf motifs. A bold header bears the denomination 'Fünfzigtausend Mark' in heavy Gothic letterpress type, flanked left and right by rectangular panels each carrying the numeral '50 000' above the word 'Mark' and small crossed-ellipse vignettes. The central cartouche, framed by a rounded rectangle, carries the 'Gutschein' legend on a ribbon scroll, the issuing authority 'Stadt FORST (Lausitz)', a serial number field, the date 'Forst (Lausitz), den 17. August 1923', the caption 'DER MAGISTRAT:' and two manuscript facsimile signatures, with a validity clause printed in small type along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and presents the plain cream paper surface, through which the obverse design is visible in full mirror image as a show-through impression, with no additional text, vignette, or ornamental element applied to this side. |
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Forst an der Neisse was a significant textile manufacturing town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, the Magistrat issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because Reichsbank notes simply couldn't be printed fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. At the 50,000 Mark denomination, this note was already mid-tier by the time it circulated; within weeks of similar issues, denominations climbed into the billions.
E. Hoene was a local Forst printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That matters: municipal Notgeld from in-town printers shows more variation in impression quality and paper stock than issues contracted to Leipzig or Berlin trade printers.