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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 608867, member: 4703&quot;]Of course technically, since it isn&#039;t German, it can&#039;t be &quot;notgeld&quot;; but what else would you call currency issued by a local governmental unit at a time that the national government isn&#039;t providing an adequate supply of legal tender?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t call it &quot;provincial currency&quot;, which to me is money issued by a local government, with the tacit or express consent of the national government, and with the intention that it pass - at least throughout the issuing bailiwick - as legal tender.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Examples are the Akita and Sado coinage of Japan, the German States coinage of the Imperial Period, and the Italian States coinage of the 19th Century.&nbsp; In fact, I&#039;m not sure that individual national Euro commemoratives don&#039;t fit that category as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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