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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2767512, member: 42634&quot;]Here is one area of modern coinage I like to dabble in, porcelain notgeld coins.&nbsp; Notgeld coins in general were emergency coins&nbsp; produced during WW I and into the 1920s by local governments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like this&nbsp; (I dabble in these also)...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_1129_zpsob4mthce.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_1129_zpsob4mthce.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_1129_zpsob4mthce.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These porcelain coins were produced in the early 1920&#039;s, some to be sold as collectors items, but I believe some of these actually circulated.&nbsp; Many of them were made in Meissen, which is famous for its&#039; porcelain.&nbsp; If you see a crossed swords symbol on a porcelain coins..it&#039;s made in Meissen.&nbsp; Like this...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_7268_zpsepfcbxpr.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_7268_zpsepfcbxpr.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_7268_zpsepfcbxpr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>or this...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_5107_zpsqfvb5oup.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_5107_zpsqfvb5oup.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_5107_zpsqfvb5oup.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>or this...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_4026_zpsbluucfha.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_4026_zpsbluucfha.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_4026_zpsbluucfha.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the coins are partially gilt, like this one..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_5759_zpsrrtkb4mi.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_5759_zpsrrtkb4mi.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_5759_zpsrrtkb4mi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll notice that most of these are red in color, but they also made white porcelain coins (and some other colors), but I don&#039;t have one yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one that isn&#039;t mine, also note that it doesn&#039;t have the crossed swords &quot;mint mark&quot;, so not a Meissen coin. [ATTACH=full]637581[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Meissen also produced porcelain tokens for fundraising purposes and to be used as medals.&nbsp; This is a fund rasing token..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_8936_zpsarib4elz.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_8936_zpsarib4elz.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_8936_zpsarib4elz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few more of mine..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_1114_zps4n5osd2z.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/100_1114_zps4n5osd2z.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/100_1114_zps4n5osd2z.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_3906_zps65a2f88b.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_3906_zps65a2f88b.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_3906_zps65a2f88b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4172_zps6ba8cf6c.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4172_zps6ba8cf6c.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_4172_zps6ba8cf6c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4169_zps9f54dc04.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4169_zps9f54dc04.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_4169_zps9f54dc04.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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