Post your Emergency Issue coins and notes

Here's a couple porcelain's.

 

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Ghent under German occupation

 

Emergency currency for Jersey under German occupation

 

Currency from the Italian occupation of Ethiopia during WWII

 

Hawaii WWII emergency note

 

Spanish civil war coinage, Menorca

 

WWII provisional coinage, Lebanon & Syria

 

Guess we all have different criteria when it comes to what is emergency money. But neither the Deutsches Reich 1948 nor the Saarland 1955 coins are notgeld in my opinion. After the end of WW2 the Deutsches Reich continued to exist, except it was now occupied by the allied forces. And the allied administration continued to issue the coins that Nazi Germany had issued, except that the eagle now had a tail instead of the swastika. After the 1948 currency reform in the Western occupation zones (East Germany did something similar a little later) those coins were demonetized.

Saarland was taken out of the French occupation zone in early 1946 and became semi-independent. After the short lived Saar-Mark (June-November 1947) they used the French franc there but with their own coins. In January 1957 Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany; currency wise they did not introduce the DEM until July 1959.

Now emergency money (notgeld, monnaie de nécessité, etc.) is rather something that "has" to be issued due to some emergency situation, a sudden lack of small change maybe. Among the strangest "notgeld" I am aware of are the gold (!!) coins from Tabora, German East Africa in WW1 ...

Christian

 

I certainly didn’t want to dissuade anyone from posting, but I agree that Saarland might not qualify as emergency issue. I’m not exactly sure what would (or would not) be considered emergency issue, but I think maybe metal changes or issuances from other countries might fall under there.

Do you think all coins minted in zinc and iron count as emergency issue?

 

Here are two interesting ones. The first is from the Philippine resistance. It even says "emergency currency" on it.

The second is supposedly from the White Russian side of the Russian revolution (the loyalists to the monarchy).

 

During the 1920s, Germany experienced hyperinflation and the emergency currency was printed by the truckload but was essentially worthless - the German people found novel uses for the stuff :

 

The vast majority, yes. Funny thing is, there is always an exception. Austria for example had a plain regular 5 Groschen coin, minted between 1948 and 1992/94, that was a zinc piece ...

As for the Tabora coins that I mentioned, have a look here for example. Quite a few 5 and 20 Heller coins, mostly brass but in various "metal mixes", whatever they could get. Scroll down, and you see those gold emergency coins (15 Rupien/rupees), made because the German colonial administration moved to Tabora in WW1, and somehow had to pay people. So they used gold from the local mines, and tools and designers that were only sort-of-qualified. That is also why the Tabora gold notgeld contains silver and copper in different amounts.

Christian

 

You have a great collection of unusual and interesting 20th century coins (and even 2 from the 21st)

 

I found this coin in my photos. It's a 10 Pfennig Notgeld, but the photos are pretty poor. I think I have it cataloged somewhere.

 

I thought I did not have any emergency coinage, but then remembered this Peruvian 8 Reales minted in 1822 by the new Peruvian Republic.
It was counterstamped in 1824 by the last remaining Spanish Loyalists during the siege of their last stronghold in South America - the fortress of 'Real Felipe' in Lima.

This thread recounts the story of the siege and of this coin:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-...ast-stand-in-latin-america.52528/#post-584398

 

Do we see a tongue? Then it should be this one, I think. Yes, definitely Notgeld, as in those years (1917/1918) the lack of small change was actually a problem. So cities and counties started issuing their own local money (mostly coins but also paper). Later Notgeld, from the inflation years until 1923, was primarily paper because the denominations had to change so fast ...

Christian

 

Another counterstamp related to Latin America - this one a Chilean Volcano peso dated 1834, counterstamped in the Philippines which was then a Spanish Colony.
Interestingly, almost all of the 1834 Volcano Pesos that exist bear a C/S.
This date without the C/S is extremely rare.

I assume that shortage of coinage in the Philippines led to counterstamping of Latin American crowns for use locally. The Spanish Crown counterstamp of the Philippines is also known on Peruvian as well as other crowns.

 

Not really emergency money,
but I think these are pretty cool.

Paper coinage,
Philippines under Japanese government

 

Token for fund raising on construction of a monument to the admiral Miguel Grau.
Peru.
October 20 1935.

 

Colombia.
5 pesos 1907 (papel moneda: "paper money"). They used parallel to gold peso and weren't convertible currency.