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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2067792, member: 39&quot;]Some great pieces there.&nbsp; 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 ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;market woman&quot; from Aachen I have too; don&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Deutsche Mark coins (5 DM, 10 DM) are from my country, the Federal Republic of Germany - and of course <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> can be found in my collection as well. Ah, Heine ...&nbsp; 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 ...</p><p><br /></p><p>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 <i>Mülheim an der Ruhr</i>) but in the local dialect - Möllem op de Ruhren. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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