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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 1141610, member: 17469&quot;]Merci, monsieur L!</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting you mention that, here&#039;s a quote from Wikipedia&#039;s &quot;notgeld&quot; article. It does look like the German notes were collected early on, whereas I haven&#039;t seen any similar comments about the French ones.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>As these banknotes were very colorful, they soon became a target for collectors. As the issuing bodies realized this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand" rel="nofollow">demand</a>,&nbsp; they continued to issue these notes beyond their economic necessity up&nbsp; till 1922. Quite often the validity period of the note had already&nbsp; expired when the notgeld was issued. The sets that were issued in 1920&nbsp; and predominantly in 1921 were usually extremely colourful and depicted&nbsp; many things, such as local buildings, local scenes and local&nbsp; folklore/tales. These sets (that were not actually issued to go into&nbsp; circulation) were known as &quot;Serienscheine&quot; (serial paper money).</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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