German War tokens.

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by Siberian Man, Jan 18, 2010.

  1. chrisild

    chrisild Coin Collector

    The piece from Koblenz, back then "Coblenz", features Joseph (von) Görres who was born in that city. Don't know who the man with the hat, on the other side, could be - but "Kastemännche" was a popular term in the Rhineland area for the Prussian 2½ (silver) groschen coins minted roughly between 1840 and 1870. And 25 pfennig would colloquially be two and a half groschen; no silver though. ;)

    The text on the Bonn piece basically says who issued the coin: "Unter Gewähr der Kreise Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land und des Siegkreises 1917" Means something like "under warranty by the counties of" etc. (The first county is the city of Bonn today; the other two were merged into one county later.)

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  3. dlgilles

    dlgilles Member

    Fantastic coins, thanks for sharing all of them. I need more spare time! So much to learn.
     
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  4. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Munster.
    Big town in Nothern Rhein - Westphalia. Population - about 280000. Munster was founded by emperor Charles the Great in 793.
    10 pfennig 1918.

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  5. Oldhoopster

    Oldhoopster Member of the ANA since 1982

    I really should get around to taking some pics of my metal notgeld. I have over 270 different towns and probably 550-600 different types. Determining the Funck attribution is always a challenge because my German is really poor.
     
  6. Steve66

    Steve66 Coin People

    Great collection Evgeney! Thanks for sharing.
    This is one I have... I'm not sure when or where I got it.

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  7. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Hallo Steve! You have token from the big German city Aachen. Tokens of Aachen are realy nice and rather numerous.
     
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  8. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Wertheim.
    Town in Baden-Wurttemberg. Population - about 22500.

    50 pfennig without the date.
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  9. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Weissenfels.
    Town in Saxony-Anhalt. Population: about 41500. Weissenfels was the capital of independent duchy Saxen-Weissenfels.
    10 pfennig 1918, iron, 4,58 g., size - 22,8 mm, thickness - 1,8 mm, mintage uncknown. Minted in Berlin. Single release. 149.jpg 150.jpg
     
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  10. brg5658

    brg5658 Well-Known Member

    Picked up these two lovely train/transportation tokens recently. They are both aluminum, and both are graded MS64 by PCGS. Cataloged in Opalka as Dusseldorf 1.2.1 (5 Wert-Marke) and Dusseldorf 2.2.1 (10 Wert-Marke).

    @chrisild may be able to offer a bit more information on these - I loved them largely for the horse statue engravings on the obverses done by the L. Christian Lauer company (not by L. Christian Lauer himself - he died in 1873). The statue is that of "Jan Wellem" - Johann Wilhelm II - Elector Palatine (1658-1716).

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  11. whopper64

    whopper64 Well-Known Member

    Great tokens, but I think you meant WW1.
     
  12. James Keffer

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  13. Oldhoopster

    Oldhoopster Member of the ANA since 1982

    Zippy Kitty is frustrated because she just realized she can't read German

    (I've posted this pic on some other threads previously)

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    Here is my Nurnberg-Further Strassenbahn set

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  14. offa the saxon

    offa the saxon Well-Known Member


    I buy most of mine from a dealer in Prague
     
  15. offa the saxon

    offa the saxon Well-Known Member

    These tokens were issued in zinc, iron and brass but there are also others made from porcelain and extremely rarely leather.
     
  16. brg5658

    brg5658 Well-Known Member

    The ones in zinc and iron are very difficult to find in good condition. They rust and corrode very easily! :(
     
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  17. chuckylucky5

    chuckylucky5 Well-Known Member

    I would post my WWI and WWII emergency/notgeld/kriegsgeld, etc, but I have over 650 different locations.
     
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  18. offa the saxon

    offa the saxon Well-Known Member

    Exactly finding them in any high grade is almost impossible
     
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  19. TonkawaBill

    TonkawaBill Well-Known Member

    Lovely,
     
  20. talerman

    talerman Well-Known Member

    2 a day and we can enjoy them for a year
     
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  21. The Eidolon

    The Eidolon Well-Known Member

    Picked up 2 notgeld coins today:
    L: Bonn, 1920, 25 pfennig
    R: Düren, 1918, 10 pfennig
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