100 Bielefeld Mark

coinkat

I am sorry about the picture quality. Its these KB things and trying to get it to fit within the 50kb limit. The real picture is over 825 KB and looks decent

tbirde56

From Bielefeld in Westphalia. I know there was a 10,000 Mark note issued as well as other notes, coins and stamps.

wildjag

I just went to a coin show a few weeks back and one dealer had pile after pile of Notgeld notes. Everyone of them was crisp and looked brand new.

I viewed this dealers whole pile as being fakes he printed up. The paper was too white for being that old.

Anyone that collects these, how do you tell the fakes from the real?

Askari

Few of them are worth faking. I have many that are crisp and new-looking. Most of the post-WWI notgeld was issued for collectors, not circulation. Wartime notes -- Kriegsnotgeld -- is usually cruder and on poorer paper.

Many have watermarks in the paper. That's hard to counterfeit. Frankly, though, if you're unfamiliar with the notes, you might be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

BTW, there are actually contemporary counterfeits ... of a sort. A printer made up his own for non-existent cities and sometimes non-official notes for real ones. They're now part of the hobby.

coinkat

This note as well as the other note in another thread is silk and not paper. Bielefeld had some notes issued in linen, silk and perhaps afew other things. The linen and silk notes are very colorful and some are not all that common from what I understand.