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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3354552, member: 39&quot;]Guess we all have different criteria when it comes to what is emergency money. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But neither the Deutsches Reich 1948 nor the Saarland 1955 coins are notgeld in my opinion. After the end of WW2 the Deutsches Reich continued to exist, except it was now occupied by the allied forces. And the allied administration continued to issue the coins that Nazi Germany had issued, except that the eagle now had a tail instead of the swastika. After the 1948 currency reform in the Western occupation zones (East Germany did something similar a little later) those coins were demonetized.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saarland was taken out of the French occupation zone in early 1946 and became semi-independent. After the short lived Saar-Mark (June-November 1947) they used the French franc there but with their own coins. In January 1957 Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany; currency wise they did not introduce the DEM until July 1959.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now emergency money (notgeld, monnaie de nécessité, etc.) is rather something that &quot;has&quot; to be issued due to some emergency situation, a sudden lack of small change maybe. Among the strangest &quot;notgeld&quot; I am aware of are the gold (!!) coins from Tabora, German East Africa in WW1 ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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