German War tokens.

Kaiserslautern is an old town in Rheinland-Pfalz with the population about 100000.
It was founded in IX century.
During the WWI Kaiserslautern's rulers minted this kriegsgeld.

 

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Got it today.
10 pfennig 1920, Aachen city.

 

Very nice!

Did Frankfurt or Hanau ever do these?
Maybe Rossdorf? (Just east of Hanau)

 

Gorgeous!
Home of Karl de Grosse!


Edit:
Kaiserslauttern sounds very familiar...
That has to be near Hanau, because I know I have heard that name.
(My father was stationed in Hanau twice, so I like German things very much)

 

For the background of this piece (and another one from Aachen, featuring a market woman) have a look here: http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=86455&p=781177&viewfull=1#post781177

Christian

 

Hehe, "near" is relative. Kaiserslautern is in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hanau is in Hesse, about 140 km north-east. But both places have or had American military installations.

Aachen is "Charlemagne City" indeed. And in a way, that bear-wolf coin even has to do with him; see the link in my previous post.

Christian

 

Got it a couple of days ago.

 

Here is my last kraut War toke. I got it about 3 months ago. I like it very much.

 

What, the word "kraut"? Well, I don't. The building on that piece from Trier is the Porta Nigra, by the way. A gate of the Roman city, built around 200 AD. (Trier, RP is the oldest city in Germany.) The Porta Nigra was also used for a city token in 2007: http://www.lifepr.de/attachment/3257/Repro_Trier_10x15_gold+Kopie.jpg And it will be on the RP state coin (€2) in 2017 ...

Christian

 

LOL Christian, I almost said "Hun".... :foot-mouth::foot-mouth::foot-mouth:

 

http://www.cointalk.com/t108538/
Hello Ripley,
This previous thread describes a couple Trier coins like yours. I like it too.

 

Cool 89. Good memory to go back a year, to pull the info out.

 

Weida.
50 pfennig 1918, UNC.

 

Siegen.
50 pfennig 1918, UNC.

 

Aachen.
25 pfennig 1920, iron. Funny dog on the reverse.

 

Dog, phh. That is a wolf, or a bear, depending on which version of the legend you prefer, hehe. Click/see here: http://www.cointalk.com/t86455/#post781177

(Posts #5 and #9 show the pieces that my comment refers to. And one of them is like the one you have.)

Christian

 

Probably a werewolf, judging by the fingers on front legs

 

The Halle Stadt has a very interesting design. A crescent and two David stars. I wonder if that city had a higher Jewish population just after WWI.

BTW: Nice collection.

 

The crescent and the two stars (not stars of David), that is simply Halle's coat of arms. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_(Saale)#Wappen - text in German, but it primarily says that there are various theories about the possible origin and meaning.

Christian

 

City of Bad-Homburg.
This town is situated in Hessen. The population of Bad-Homburg is about 52000. During a long time this city was the capital of the county of Bad-Homburg.