Germany coin thread (only the best)

i dig those notgeld, and dabble in them myself. the "hand grenade" and the "skeleton bear" are on my to get list.

 

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Cool German coins. Steve

 

Cool German notgelds. Steve

 

I understand notgelds were made out of paper, clay, porcelain all kinds of stuff. Here's a paper notgeld. I'm not sure if it belongs with coins but I like it and thought it would look good with the rest of great German coins. Steve

 

Here's some nice German silver coins. Enjoy Steve

 

Cool notgelds. Steve

 

Some great pieces there. I can tell it is difficult to take good photos of coins in such 2x2 holders, but your recent images are better in that the plastic does not reflect the (flash) light much any more ...

The "market woman" from Aachen I have too; don't actually collect notgeld myself, but I have a few pieces from around here (mostly state of North Rhine Westphalia). And yes, notgeld was also issued as paper money. Initially, during and shortly after WW1, the problem was that there were not enough coins, so local authorities (cities, counties ...) made such ersatz pieces. Later the issuers discovered that especially the notes were kept and collected, so lots of colorful and creative paper money issues could be had.

The Deutsche Mark coins (5 DM, 10 DM) are from my country, the Federal Republic of Germany - and of course can be found in my collection as well. Ah, Heine ... You may have noticed that, unlike the Polish eagle for example, our federal eagle is always different on coins. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes the poor bird does not get my envy ...

That 15 pfennig piece, by the way, is not actually notgeld but a tram token. What is funny about that one is that the city name is not in standard German (that would be Mülheim an der Ruhr) but in the local dialect - Möllem op de Ruhren.

Christian

 

As always you provide great interesting history, you do a fine job. I will take your advice in picture taking. Steve

 

Here's some old German states, notgelds and silver. One coin from 1804 with the man on the obverse and the reverse reads I PFENNI: SCHENDZ.MUNTZ 1804. It is very worn and I am not sure if I got the wording correct but I like the coin and would like to know more about it. Enjoy, Steve

 

The text says I PFENN: SCHEIDE. MÜNTZ. - the I is a Roman 1, PFENN: is short for Pfennig, and "Scheide Müntz" (today's spelling "Scheidemünze") means a coin with a face value that is higher than the intrinsic value.

The other side shows a "Wild Man" which indicates the coin is from Braunschweig-Lüneburg, or Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel maybe. Here are two Wikipedia articles about those Wild Men (who usually refer to the Harz mountains). The first one is in English; the second one is in German but has some more images.

Christian

 

Great information and I'm happy to own this coin. Thank You, Steve

 

Some cool Paul Von Hindenberg 5 and 2 Reichsmark. The 1936 A has no swastika.

Steve

 

Nice mixture of old and new, I really like the German Euros. Excuse the glare because I ran out of card board flips and I don't like to keep my coins loose. I have Parkinson's disease which makes it difficult for me to take quality pictures.

Enjoy, Steve

 

The German €1 and €2 coins are OK; I use them (and the other euro circulation coins) every day. That reverse design features the "old map" by the way; the later ones (as from 2007, or 2008 in some euro countries) show a geographic map of Europe.

The Schleswig-Holstein notgeld piece says 10 Hundertstel Gutschrifts-Marke, i.e. 10/100 credit token. Not sure whether 10/100 means 10 Pfennig or something else. (In 1922, for example, the state of Bremen had similar pieces with dollar based values, e.g. 1 Verrechnungs-Mark was 5 US cents.) The motto on the Schleswig-Holstein piece is in Low German by the way. Up ewig ungedeelt = Undivided forever. That was and still is the state motto ...

Christian

 

Perfect. This helps me a lot.

 

Have enjoyed going through this thread. Most of it is nearly 2 years old and I'm glad it was resurrected. I don't have too many German coins, but here a a few of them that I do have.

1729 Lubecks 4 Schilling (silver)

note the two-headed eagle which looks more Polish or Austrian than German (to me anyway)

1913 3 Marks (silver)


1915 1 Mark (silver)


1973 5 Marks Copernicus comm. (silver)


Rob

 

I really like the 1913 3 Mark. I have always wanted that coin. Steve

 

Nowadays all three (Poland, Austria, Germany) have one-headed eagles. The bird with the two heads symbolizes a duality, e.g. king and emperor. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had one, Russia had and has one ... and the Holy Roman Empire (of German Nation, -1806) had one.

In that HRE there were some "free" cities, that is, they did not have a ruler such as a king, duke, etc. Only the emperor, which made them kind of independent. Lübeck was such a city, and like several other free cities it proudly displayed the imperial double eagle (and in this case also the "Civitatis Imperialis" inscription) to show that status.

Christian

 

Here's a nice collection of German coins, notgelds and medals. Enjoy, Steve

 

That shooting medal could also be Austrian; I cannot recognize or read much, but see the "double headed" in my previous post. While I have the two lower aluminum coins (50 Pf, 200 M) issued by the empire's government, the local notgeld pieces I don't have. And the two medals (right and bottom) were issued on occasions (Pour le Mérite, Gewandhaus Leipzig) that were also commemorated on coins.

Christian