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.) Christian
Munster. Big town in Nothern Rhein - Westphalia. Population - about 280000. Munster was founded by emperor Charles the Great in 793. 10 pfennig 1918.
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.
Great collection Evgeney! Thanks for sharing. This is one I have... I'm not sure when or where I got it.
Hallo Steve! You have token from the big German city Aachen. Tokens of Aachen are realy nice and rather numerous.
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.
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).
Zippy Kitty is frustrated because she just realized she can't read German (I've posted this pic on some other threads previously) Here is my Nurnberg-Further Strassenbahn set
These tokens were issued in zinc, iron and brass but there are also others made from porcelain and extremely rarely leather.
The ones in zinc and iron are very difficult to find in good condition. They rust and corrode very easily!
I would post my WWI and WWII emergency/notgeld/kriegsgeld, etc, but I have over 650 different locations.