Anyone here collect Notgeld notes?

I guess all the recent vendors of novelty or themed coins (US and Royal Mints for example) got the idea from somewhere - and the Ducat shitting donkey picture (somewhere above this) exactly makes that point. I'm wondering if it is a bad thing if it means we get to see so many UNC examples of 'worthless' bits paper we can learn something from.

 

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Thought I'd add some more recent favourites below. Colourful and local scenes. Just remembered they may not be appropriate. Will look for some others!

 

Emergency money (that is what notgeld means) exists from many countries. It includes things like depression scrip, French locals, Italian assegno circolare and mini-assegni, Philippine guerrilla notes, Spanish Civil War notes, Portuguese and Brazilian cedulas, Danish postage currency, Mexican cartones, etc.

 

I bought a large collection back in the 80's. Mainly German and Austrian. Actually a little over 500 pieces so not "that" large. I have a set of wooden notgeld and an uncut sheet of silk notgeld from Bielefeld.
They are a conversation starter when company comes to our home.

 

Very nice.

 

I have this type of Bielefeld Silk note

(This is a web pic, but my note is in similar condition)

 

Someone want to help me with this one? I'm trying to translate but not really getting all of it.

 

Notgeld from Reetz (today part of Wiesenburg/Mark, in the state of Brandenburg). Not sure what exactly happened there in 1848 - which in other parts of Europe was a revolutionary year - but apparently the Reetzers expected some Polish attack. So the mayor sat on a cow, leading the citizens. But there was no fight, and the mayor got "injured" by falling off that cow. To make things worse, the cow also peed on him ...

Christian

 

I think it is the stories behind the notes that makes them interesting. Presumably this story was sufficiently famous to sell the notes locally. Nice to think that 60 odd years after it happened people were still laughing.

 

I'm wondering if anyone here wants to trade duplicates. Sorting the last batch I see I have quite a few. Nice to finish a series so if anyone needs anything.....

 

This Notgeld Banknote alludes to the Polish Revolt in the Prussian Province of Posen in 1848. In the context of the liberal conditions which dominate the public opinion in that time, the Poles decided to take advantage of the favourable situation and to become independent of Prussia. But their revolt was defeated quickly by the Prussian army. The revolt has had bad consequences:

(1) The privileges of the Grand Duchy Posen inside the Prussian state were suspended. From 1849 on there were no more special rights for Poles.
(2) During the so-called pre-March era the Germans have had great sympathies for the Polish demand for liberty. This sympathy gave way for an anti-Polish sentiment.
(3) The German language was introduced obligatorily in schools and courts.
(4) The Poles themselves became convinced that their way to an own state could not achieved by violence. Instead they rely on the concept of organic work inside the existing legal system ("legalization")

Best regards

 

Viktor-braun on eBay has thousands of notgeld for sell. They are all illustrated.

 

I don't collect these but I have seen a period NOTGELD ALBUM in the listings of ebay screen name "kytokens" this week. I buy tokens from him if they are from my state. Otherwise no connection. good luck.

 

If you needed help with the language, there are a few of us German speakers hanging around.

 

"Scarcity in Grade"
Minassegni, Chambe de Commerce, Deutche notgeld...
with center holes "appropriately priced" are "scarce".
"Rescue" notes.

 

Herewith I display my entire notgeld collection:


Of course, it is the SMS Emden, light cruiser of World War 1, that had quite a cruise in the Pacific. The entire story is one of the more fascinating travelogues of the War.

 

Good looking note.

 

These are practically the only Notgeld from Germany that I own. Frankly I wish I owned a ducat defecating donkey.

 

I especially like yours, @techwriter. I really find these fascinating, but don't really need another collecting focus right now.

Steve

 

1921 Brakel (Germany) Notgeld 2 Mark


Anti-Semetic Judaica note featuring a Jewish man holding an infant deficating out a window, coincidentally landing on a German nobleman. Hard to helieve this is the CENSORED version. The reverse shows a man at the gallows. Original print had the man sporting a hook nose, which was poorly edited out with brown overprint.