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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2492510, member: 39&quot;]Right, the German &quot;Not&quot; does not mean &quot;not&quot; but need or emergency, and &quot;Geld&quot; is money. But I think that the German term &quot;Notgeld&quot; is fairly common among English language collectors of such items too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Saxony pieces did actually circulate to some extent. Due to their size and composition (typically brown porcelain) they did not break as easily as your regular plate or cup would. Elsewhere other &quot;odd&quot; materials were used, such as linen or silk for notgeld banknotes. But of course it was mostly metals for coins and paper/cotton for bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notgeld was mostly issued by local authorities (cities, counties, etc.) primarily due to a lack of change. Later they &quot;discovered&quot; that even back then collectors found such issues interesting. So the bills got fancier, more colorful, depicting local people or legends ... hoping that people would &quot;buy&quot; them and never turn them in. And that worked in many cases. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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