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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2612339, member: 39&quot;]A note about the note from Paderborn: The donkey is from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wishing-Table,_the_Gold-Ass,_and_the_Cudgel_in_the_Sack" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wishing-Table,_the_Gold-Ass,_and_the_Cudgel_in_the_Sack" rel="nofollow">fairy tale</a>. And the motto is pretty funny; it is not in standard German but some local Westphalian variety. &quot;A donkey that defecates ducats - now that we do not have in Paderborn, but there are plenty of donkeys (= asinine people) in the world who buy our paper money.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In those years many notgeld bills were not issued as means of payment but with collectors in mind. That is why quite a few have very colorful designs, local references. Similarly, the Westfalen pieces such as the one shown in #3 were not meant for circulation but issued as fundraisers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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