What's the best resource for identifying German Notgeld? I have a handful of these and just added a small lot that interested me to my collection. I'm looking for something like a Krause catalog that has unique reference numbers for each piece. If possible, I'd like to know a bit more about the mintage numbers & history behind why each city/province made these. Most of these also carry dates, but I'm stumped by the 10 Pfennig from Wiesbaden - any idea when that was minted?
Peter Menzel... http://www.ebay.de/itm/Menzel-Deutsche-Notmunzen-und-sonstige-Geldersatzmarken-1873-1932-/400627418794?pt=Münzen_Medaillen&hash=item5d474146aa http://www.zvab.com/displayBookDetails.do?itemId=220164590&b=1 http://www.zvab.com/displayBookDetails.do?itemId=167851368&b=1
That catalog's 30+ years old, and it doesn't cover the Notgeld paper money, which is 90% of what you find and want to research.
Is that what you're looking for? http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces16400.mobile.html#lien_infos_techniques
PS: the F# number refers to the Funck catalog - "Notmünzen der deutschen Städte" which covers this sort of coins from 1916-21.
Notgeld coins with such low denominations were in use as "ersatz change" roughly between 1916/17 and 1919/20. There weren't enough "actual" coins issued by the Deutsches Reich's government, but the high inflation period had not begun yet ... Christian
The first one (top left) is a little different from the others as it was not issued by a city, county or company. It came out in 1919, shortly after the Deutsches Reich had become a republic, and was minted for four years. Due to the inflation (which got much worse later) only part of the 1922 was actually issued ... Christian
