Decided to start a page dedicated to new Notgeld we have added to our collections. Looks like an alien harvest.
Here's a link to a thread Drusus started last November. EXCELLENT thread on NotGeld! http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=30854&highlight=Notgeld Strangely enough, I found three two nights ago that I had bought as a kid when I was getting stamps through Littleton. Quite a coincidence!
SURE! I love paper notgeld!! I was going to bookmark this one and only show my new aquisitions (or favorites) here. I started posting them in the cheapside thread but I thought notgeld deserve its own thread that people can add to as they aquire them. By notgeld I guess I mean private or municiple issues between 1914 and 1923. Notgeld, Kriegsgeld, Kriegsnotgeld, Kleingeldersatzmarke, all Papiermark, serienscheine, Reutergeld Porcelain issues and any other type I missed. Any emergency issues. Why not also post things like Hyperinflationary money! That ties in and a lot of notgeld is hyperinflationary. That other thread is more about the connection between banknote collecting and how notgeld contributed to it but I have IT bookmarked because of some help I got with a translation there. So I wanted to have a thread everyone can add notgeld to, I like seeing them and this forum is searchable through google and the thread could help people out. Reutergeld / Stadt Gustrow
Jee Wiz!!! Alright Already!!! I have no info about these except that they must be really common I got them from the Garcelon Stamp Company (Calais, Maine) for 25 cents in the late '60's. When I found them, I was suspicious because they were crispy, brand new. After the notes, I have included a scan of the "approval" envelope they came in with a description - just for the fun of it
I like them, the are very nice designs...I dont think I have any Austrian Notgeld. As for the price. I have a price guide for coins that was last published in the 60's and most coins were valued at roughly 35 cents...some were quite a bit more but most were under a dollar. Now those coins that were valued at 35 cents are mostly valued between 4-8 dollars. Prices for notes (series of them more often) are about the same, probably priced lower than the coins on the whole but they are still very affordable. Of course there are the coins and bills that are more rare...for example I was looking at the 60's price guide and found a coin priced at 10 Dollars...that coin I saw sell recently for around 90 dollars and the book price for the coin is more like 200-300 dollars. So there are the rare varieties. With the paper notgeld, often the least interesting notes are the most expensive because in the early days they just printed very basic notes with just text on them or hand wrote them...those are rather rare and when I see them come up for sale, they sell for far more than you later series...but they just arent very pleasing to the eye. Its wasnt until a bit later that all the crazy designs came about.
I haven't bought any Notgeld lately, but this thread reminds me that I need to get back to work scanning mine in for my gallery. Here's a nice silk note I picked up a while back...
Nice...some hyper inflation and the very odd silk issue I bid on a few silk and a leather bill but didnt win them This isnt notgel but an official issue Hyperinflation note of the same time period with a nice design printed on one side only: The first part says in German: (...) zahlt die Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin gegen diese Banknote dem Einlieferer. Vom 1. September 1923 ab kann diese Banknote aufgerufen und unter Umtausch gegen andere gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel eingezogen werden In English that would be: (...) will the Reichsbank main cash desk in Berlin pay to the bearer against this banknote. As from 1 September 1923 this bank note can be called and withdrawn against other legal tender The other text, in German: Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft Which in English is about this: Anyone who counterfeits or fraudulently alters banknotes, or gets hold of such and enters them into circulation, will be punished with at least two years of prison. Notes: verfälschen refers to modifying an actual note so that it appears to have a higher value. Zuchthaus was a prison that had extremely hard conditions, like manual labor in quarries. We even had them in the early years of the Federal Republic, until about 40 years ago.
