47-piece UNC German small-denomination Notgeld lot
lordmarcovan
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I usually don't dabble with paper money much, but couldn't resist this lot for thirty bucks.
It should be pretty fun to look through when it arrives. At 64 cents apiece, I don't see a whole lot of downside.
While I remain a coin guy first and foremost, I do rather like small, colorful notes like this German Notgeld and the US Fractional Currency pieces. If I were ever to get into paper money, it would probably be along those lines.
It should be pretty fun to look through when it arrives. At 64 cents apiece, I don't see a whole lot of downside.
While I remain a coin guy first and foremost, I do rather like small, colorful notes like this German Notgeld and the US Fractional Currency pieces. If I were ever to get into paper money, it would probably be along those lines.
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My favourite Notgeld is right in the middle , depicts the timeperiod right after WW1 in Germany, unemployment , hyperinflation , famine and diseases.
Until I have these in hand, I can only squint at that group photo, since the majority- if not all- of these are unfamiliar.
The only notgeld I've had were some of those (Paderborn?) ones with a defecating donkey (!) on them. I've had a few hyperinflationary notes, too, but that's all.
Can you recommend any reference books (preferably in English) that aren't too expensive?
If you want to spend serious money on a catalog, the four volume Keller catalog of Serienscheine is the way to go.
Like the ducat defecating donkey from Paderborn.
Some pretty wry and sarcastic humour appears on some of the notes:
Like the ducat defecating donkey from Paderborn.
Interesting!
That's really a sarcastic joke!
They mocked the currency collectors with this NOTGELD!
"A donkey defecating ducats,
the Paderborn people don't have,
but there are enough donkeys in the world,
buying our paper money".
Obviously already in 1921 these notes were mostly sold to collectors and they knew this.