Help wanted ID'ing and appraising coins

Hi,
I'm not a coin collector, except that I found a bunch of foreign coins when I was a kid. I'll post one picture at a time and hopefully people will be kind enough to identify and appraise them. I apologize for the poor picture quality- I am taking them with a cell phone.

First one I believe is German, 50 million Marks, 1923, approximately US silver dollar size, gold in color.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

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Can you take a picture of it staight on and not at an angle its hard to atribute it like it is.

 

Absolutely. I forgot to add that I'd appreciate any tips on presenting these to the forum. Hopefully the picture quality will improve.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

I believe you have an item of "notgeld", a token issued near the end of the hyper-inflationary years of the Weimar Republic, during which the exchange rate rose to US$1 = 1-trillion marks!

The financial melt-down led directly to the ascension to power of Hitler, as his Nazi party and another right-wing group won a commanding majority of seats in the next parliamentary election.

Notgeld was issued primarily by local governments, although some was privately issued. The largest government coinage had a value of only 5 marks.

 

This one has me completly stumped...I agree with hontonai.

 

The notegeld assessment is correct. I just sold one of these same pieces in a little better condition for $90 about a month ago.