Westfalen Inflation Period Tokens

STLNATS

As a secondary interest, I collect the Westfalen inflation tokens by the Frenzel catalogue. I've always really liked this set and finally decided to spend a little money (equal to maybe 1 good national banknote) to put together a representative set in hgh grade.

At any rate, the 10,000 Mk and 50 Million Mk come with two edge varieties: breiten and schmalen Randstab. According to my notes I have both varieties of the 10,000 Mk but I just don't recall how I told them apart.

A while back Udo wrote me about these and indicated a 2 gm weight difference between the 2 varieties, but is there an easy visual cue that I can use to tell these apart? Also, the Frenzel cat is easy to use with my high school German, but is there a more definitive catalogue I should look for (providing, of course, it has more varieties to look for!)

Finally, I'm looking for a high grade 2 million mk in aluminum to finish my basic type/denomination set before launching into the more arcane, valuable varieties.

Thanks!

Udo

Compare your varieties, the difference should be visible to the naked eye. It's the rim width, which is wide on one and small on the other variety. I can't show the difference in pictures because I only have one variety. But on the below picture I've marked what is meant with Randstab, I hope it helps.







Sorry, can't help you with a more definitve catalog

STLNATS

Thanks for the followup Udo. They all kinda look the same to me but I guess I need to pull out a glass and stare at them a while!

STLNATS

Well, I stared at them for a while last pm Udo and indeed there is a difference. The "thin" rim is close to that on the 50 million aluminum token. So I do have a thick and thin 10k mk (boxed no less), but both of my 50 millions are thick.

Thanks again for the help!

Udo

You're welcome