Porcelain Coins

In addition to porcelain, there is a notgeld set from Rothenbach made from pressed coal dust. I didn't believe this was an actual thing until I saw one in person.

 

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Whaaaaaaat? Can you show us pictures?

 

I'd never heard of this myself, see pic here...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces75526.html

My first thought was I have to see a pic, my second thought was "I want one".

I checked out some prices...I won't be getting one.

 

What kinda cha-ching are you talking about here?

 

Couple-few hundred bucks, unless you want like a PQ example. They pop up on eBay often.

 

Saw one at an ANA show about 10 years ago. It wasn't cheap

 

I have only one example of a porcelain piece in my collection. I'd personally call this one a "store card" of the sorts meant for advertising more than anything.

 

havne't seen that one, neat! that one thing i like about collecting notgeld in general, there's a HUGE variety of different types.

 

I just obtained this...

 

those gotta be tough to grade...

 

Yea they are tricky. These pieces don't really "wear" in the traditional sense. They mostly just chip and end up looking faded without really losing details.

 

well, i mentioned that i didn't have a white one, so i had to fix that problem.

 

Not sure why they put pears on notgeld from Grünberg (Zielona Góra) - the area is known for wine. So I would have expected grapes.

Christian

 

One thing I like about getting these is trying to figure out why they put the on them what they did, it's sometime something cool about the locality. I couldn't figure this out either.

The obverse is the town coat of arms, the 1222 date is the earliest written record of the town. (thanks wikipedia!)I wonder if they made wine form pears at some point?

 

Just got a link to this thread.

My recent Meissen acquisition.

Z

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I still have a bunch I need to attribute and file. I seem to be gravitating towards the city issued non-Meissen pieces with denominations.

 

Brandy is also very popular as is cognac which is basically just extra distilled higher proof wine. Brandy can be made from any fruit but pears are bigger and less labor intensive to gather.

 

I have a nice little group of these (somewhere around 10-20 pieces) but I had a heck of a time attributing them, so I just imaged them and stashed them away for later. I think the white gilt pieces are my favorites, although the gold really complements the red porcelain nicely too.

Thank you for sharing yours!

 

This is a new edition for me. Another Meisen piece that would also be considered a medal. This one is 65mm in diameter. Sellers photos.

 

The first piece belongs to the state of Düren and was minted by the company of the brothers Kugel & Fink, "Gebrüder Kugel & Fink" in german language, from Lüdenscheid, founded in 1871. The Kugel & Fink brothers, also abbreviated to G.K. & F. or Gebr. Kugel and Fink in Lüdenscheid, produced metal objects such as coins, militaria or cutlery.

The Legend surrounding Miner with pick axe and lantern say "JCH FŒRDERE KOHLE UND RETTE MEIN VATERLAND" this means "I PROMOTE COAL AND SAVE MY FATHERLAND", the Issuing authority was the city, province of the Rhine and the mintage was of 650,000 pieces.