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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1268215, member: 66&quot;]It is a piece of what is known as Notgeld or &quot;emergency money&quot;&nbsp; Toward the end of the first world war through about 1923, many cities, states, businesses, and even private citizens in Germany issued small denomination tokens to assist in local commerce.&nbsp; I collect the metal municipal issues.&nbsp; There are somewhere around 650 different issuing cities and states, each with anywhere from one to a dozen or so different coins.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t have one from each issuer, but I have over 2,100 different pieces.&nbsp; Prices can run from a few dollars each for most of the common ones up into the hundreds or even thousands for the very rare pieces.&nbsp; Denominations range from 1 pfennig up to the 1 billion Mark coins of Westphalia during the 1923 inflation period.&nbsp; Along with the metal, there are also notgeld pieces made in porcelain, cardboard, leather and even compressed powdered coal.&nbsp; Then there is also the paper notgeld which is a never ending collection with over 250,000 different varieites.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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