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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkreis Forst (Lausitz), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-grey on white paper and centered on a circular vignette containing the municipal coat of arms of Forst, with an elaborate helmet crest above the shield, flanked by decorative scroll-work cartouche. Behind the central vignette, a panoramic silhouette of the city of Forst — featuring factory chimneys to the left and a church steeple to the right — extends across the full width of the note. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large Gothic lettering at both lower corners, with the issuing authority 'Stadt-kreis Forst-Lausitz' inscribed in Fraktur script across the upper portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt-kreis Forst-Lausitz 50 Pf. 50 |
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Forst an der Neisse was a significant textile manufacturing town — the "Manchester of the Lausitz" by local reputation — and its municipal notgeld reflects the administrative confidence of a functioning industrial center rather than the desperation issues common to smaller rural communities. The 1920 date places this squarely in the second wave of German emergency currency, after the Reichsbank's initial postwar shortage measures proved insufficient and municipalities took broader independent action.
Locally printed notgeld from this period is frequently undervalued by collectors focused on the more elaborately produced series from larger presses. Forst's issues were functional, not philatelic bait.