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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 780832, member: 6370&quot;]I guess I meant if he ends up buying a lot of them if he hasn&#039;t already. If I am not mistaken &#039;war&#039; money is Kriegsgeld while Notgeld is emergency money so to call them notgeld would not be in error as they are coins to fill an lack of change which could conceivably be considered a emergency stop gap procedure. Please correct me if I am wrong, you probably know more about it than me. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In this thread we have an Öcher Grosche which I believe means &#039;Aachen Grosche&#039;...Grosche being 10 Pfennig. We also have a Kleingeldersatzmarke which I think mean something like &#039;Replacement Small Change&#039; or something like that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I guess I often call most of these notgeld as a general term for local money, war money, any local municipal or business emergency issue from 1914 to 1923 Germany and Austria and the like. It was my understanding a lot of these werent even used or even meant to be used so one might even call then a commemorative token &#039;wertmarke&#039; meant only to be bought and collected.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, I got an interesting e-mail the other day regarding another Aachen coin I have:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/stadtaache.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/aachendog2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>According to legend the money for the construction of the famous cathedral Ahenskogo given features. Ahensky Cathedral, part of the ten most famous cathedrals of the world, is listed in the list of world cultural heritage by UNESCO. There are more than 600 years old Germanic emperors were crowned. The cathedral was built, when in Europe about buildings of this scale and never dreamed of, and only Aachen, the capital of Charlemagne&#039;s empire, could afford such a grand building.</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>As the legend goes, the money for the cathedral gave the devil. But given a reason, and provided that the townspeople will give him the soul of one who was the first step over the threshold of the cathedral. A beautiful temple has stood in the middle of the square, but no one dared to enter it, and demanded the promised features of the living soul. And then the townspeople caught in the surrounding forests of the wolf and dragged him to the entrance of the temple. There, the beast fired and struck the bell loudly, so that the wolf, frightened, rushed straight into the open gate of the temple. Damn pounced on a poor beast, and in fact from fear - and the spirit won. Only here the devil saw that he got little soul useless. Beside himself with rage, he rushed with a wild roar from the temple, but first kicked the iron gates of the cathedral. From such a blow doors cracked, and a crack at them visible so far. City authorities ordered in memory of the wolf-beast martyr cast in bronze, and separately - his poor soul. It indeed looks like a big fir-cone, but still decorates the temple, which houses the marble throne of Charlemagne, and hangs from the ceiling, wrought-iron chandelier - a gift of Frederick Barbarossa.</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This person sent me this link:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.weltreport.de/germany/2007/05/31/aachen_dom_sagen/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.weltreport.de/germany/2007/05/31/aachen_dom_sagen/" rel="nofollow">http://www.weltreport.de/germany/2007/05/31/aachen_dom_sagen/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So I guess this person is saying it is a wolf but I thought it was supposed to be a female bear...are you familiar with this?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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