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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 885579, member: 6986&quot;]I will skip the massage, but here goes . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>German notgeld (the term literally means &quot;emergency money&quot;) is divided into seven (or eight if you include post-WWII notes) categories.&nbsp; These are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) 1914 - just as they sound, notes issued in 1914 as substitutes for coinage that disappeared because of WWI.&nbsp; Issued in denominations up to 5 mark by municipalities and businesses.</p><p>2) Verkehrausgeben - Circulating issues from 1916-21 issued in denominations of less than 1 mark</p><p>3) 1918-20 - Circulating issues issued in denominations of 1 mark and higher</p><p>4) Serienscheine - Series notes issued 1920-21 in small denominations.&nbsp; These are the most common type of notgeld.&nbsp; These are the typical, colorful notes issued in series by municipalities and organizations for collectors.&nbsp; Most of these notes were not issued for circulation as their value was so small they would not have been useful for commerce.</p><p>5) 1922 - Larger denomination notes from 100-100,000 marks issued by local governments, state (lander) governments and companies as a result of the mild inflation of 1922.</p><p>6) 1923 - Hyperinflation notes issued by local governments and businesses during the hyperinflation of 1923.</p><p>7) Wertbestandiges Geld - notes issued in October-November 1923 at the start of the currency reform.&nbsp; The value of these notes was pegged to a commodity or the US dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the useful catalogs are in German.&nbsp; They are well illustrated and most people can make sense of them with the help of a German dictionary.&nbsp; The German catalogs are divided according to the categories found above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a useful website for basic information in English:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://homepages.tesco.net/~notgeldman/frames.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://homepages.tesco.net/~notgeldman/frames.htm" rel="nofollow">http://homepages.tesco.net/~notgeldman/frames.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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