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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 4910787, member: 12789&quot;]Some older silver coins, ie 2,3 and 5 marks were counterstamped with new values.&nbsp; Some were officially done by local governments but some were also fraudulently done.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you had connections and foreign trade, you dealt in US$ GB£.&nbsp; There are some notgeld notes denominated in US$.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time in Russia it was not uncommon for some enterprises to be trading in GB£.&nbsp; Back about 25 years ago someone pulled up some floorboards of an older house in Saint Petersburg and found a box containing several dozen British pound notes from the late teens and early 1920s.&nbsp; The speculation was that someone acquired them in trade and then the Soviet government cracked down on trading with capitalists and whoever owned the notes hid them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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