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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2311728, member: 74834&quot;]By the way, Bielefeld Notgeld is one of the most interesting subjects of all the German &#039;banknotes&#039; of 1918-1923. Bielefeld had been a centre of cloth making for centuries, and the local City Bank decided it could make some money in those hard times by producing the best, most humorous, most interesting types of small change notes - that was what Notgeld was for. But from the start, there were COLLECTORS (yes, people like us!), collectors that liked all those bright and beautiful designs, and they sold quite well.</p><p><br /></p><p>To advertise the Bielefeld cloth industry the City Bank had banknotes made on linen and silk, some even embroidered, and these are the most sought after, for sale for hundreds or thousands. The designs are very attractive, informative and humorous, for instance your three million mark note mentions a 12th century tax from a farm in Bielefeld that had to deliver two barrels of honey each year to a local women&#039;s abbey, and that is what is depicted: four horsemen delivering two barrels of honey to two high-and-mighty ladies, probably the abbess and her secretary.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.numis-online.ch/download/Grabowski-Notgeld-der-besonderen-Art-opt.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numis-online.ch/download/Grabowski-Notgeld-der-besonderen-Art-opt.pdf" rel="nofollow">This book about unusual German Notgeld</a> that you can read online, will give you an idea about the matter. It is in German and English.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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