Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1786226, member: 6986&quot;]Notgeld literally means &quot;emergency money&quot;.&nbsp; The term notgeld is usually used to describe notes issued during and after WWI in any number of countries including Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Poland, Luxemburg, Hungary although for some of these countries the notes are also referred to as &quot;locals&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In Germany, there were many different types of notgeld issued.&nbsp; 1) Verkehrausgabe - small change notes issued 1914-15.&nbsp; 2)&nbsp; Serienscheine - small denomination notes issued 1920-21 usually in sets sold to collectors.&nbsp; 3)&nbsp; Grossgeld - higher denomination notes issued for the inflation of 1922.&nbsp; 4)&nbsp; Hyperinflation - extremely high denomination notes issued during the hyperinflation of 1923.&nbsp; 5)&nbsp; Reichsbahn notes - notes issued by the German railroad during the 1923 hyperinflation.&nbsp; 6)&nbsp; Wertbestandiges notes -- issued in late 1923, the denomination of these notes are expressed in goldpfennig and goldmarks and are pegged to the US dollar.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Arnold Keller, the German notgeld cataloguer, once opined that there were upwards of 175,000 different German notgeld notes alone.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>US Depression Scrip (1930s) and notes from the Panics of 1873, 1893, 1907 and 1914 are types of emergency currency.&nbsp; The Boise Idaho one cent pieces of 1943 are emergency currency.&nbsp; Italian circulating cheques of 1943-45 and the mini-assegni of the mid 1970s are also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in