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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26605262, member: 10461&quot;]<b><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Germany (Westphalia): 1923 gilt tombac hyperinflationary 10,000-mark notgeld token</font></font></b></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PCGS MS64.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/38640462" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/38640462" rel="nofollow">Cert. #38640462</a>.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/16928" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/16928" rel="nofollow">Numista-16928</a>, Jaeger-20a, Funck-645.7.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Gold-plated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombac" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombac" rel="nofollow">tombac</a>.&nbsp; Diameter: 44.1 mm.&nbsp; Weight: 31.7 g.&nbsp; Mintage: 315,809.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notgeld" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notgeld" rel="nofollow">notgeld</a> token was issued during the period of economic instability in the Weimar Republic in Germany, between the World Wars.&nbsp; The resulting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic" rel="nofollow">hyperinflation</a> grew so rampant that emergency tokens like this were issued in ever larger and larger denominations- later in the hundreds of thousands of marks.&nbsp; Later still, there were tokens and paper currency with denominations in the <i>millions</i> and even <i>billions</i> of marks, as the currency became ever more worthless!</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Though its monetary value was destined to become meaningless not long after it was issued, this is a very handsome large token with attractive gilt surfaces.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-Halbedel Münzen und Medaillen, Germany, via MA-Shops storefront, 7 October 2019.&nbsp; Purchased raw.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1695824[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695825[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695826[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695828[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #ffffff">008000</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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