Impulse newp... a 47-piece lot... but NOT coins!

Ephesus Numismatics had this 47-piece UNC small-denomination Notgeld lot on VCoins.
I usually don't dabble with paper money much, but couldn't resist these. Got 'em for thirty bucks after a price reduction.
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.
I usually don't dabble with paper money much, but couldn't resist these. Got 'em for thirty bucks after a price reduction.
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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The "manhole" cover remembers the Nazi students burning books on that spot in 1933. Looks like the books list authors targeted. Hadn't seen this before, where is it?
edited to add: Berlin it seems - http://www.historyplace.com/wo.../timeline/bookburn.htm
and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
Congrats and thanks for sharing.
I can not see anything about Berlin, but if that is the location of the cover, it is probably obvious.
in the outer circle:
"This was a foreplay, Only at a location where books are being burned, will eventually People be burned." (by H. Heine. he is well known)
Center: "On May 10, 1933, Nationalist, social students burned books on this location, belonging to: Authors, Scientists, publishers and philosopher".
the 3 book pages name the people whos books were burned I belive.
FWIW, I did a quick search and the plaque is at Frankfurt a. Main in the Römerberg square in front of the city hall There is a memorial in Berlin (and maybe other cities) but this isn't it. http://en.tracesofwar.com/arti...laque-Book-Burning.htm
Looks like you could create the plot for Dracula if you had enough of those!
We will have to compare notes and see if we can trade. I really like this stuff. I bought the Courteney Coffing reference on DVD (by accident, I wanted the book of course) and I have not made a bunch of sense of it, so it has gotten shelved for a few months. Maybe I should dig it out. I bought it with the idea that I would at least try to fill out some of the issuing city sets where I already had a few notes. But using the DVD really threw me for a loop and was not how I thought it would be so I just stopped. But I fell in love with this stuff when I was 14 and attended ANA in Chicago in 1991 then stopped because the only real sellers seemed to be overseas and I was even more broke then than I am now.
Frankfurt, Germany, Book burning marker
All of the names were German authors except one.
Jack London
One of my favortie Notgelds is this one, part of a series on German African explorers:
Berlin Notgeld, 75 pfennigs, 1921, Hermann von Wissmann
Hermann von Wissmann was a German African explorer.
TOGO / KAMERUN / DEUTSCH-SÜDWEST DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKA / 1884-1918
Gedenkt unserer kolonien
Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonial Gedenktag - Hamburg Berlin Bremen
Dieser Kolonial Gutschein verliert mit dem 31 März 1922 seine Gultigkeit.
Die Geschäftsführung
TOGO / CAMEROON / GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA / GERMAN EAST AFRICA / 1884-1918
Remember our colonies
German-Hanseatic Colonial Memorial Day - Hamburg Berlin Bremen
This colonial credit note loses its value on 31 March 1922.
The management
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
are you seriously into German Colonial coins especially German east Africa?
if so, please PM me as I am very close friends with a German collector who probably has , well, I will just say and immense collection.. and there is a reason for it.
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How does this fit into your philosophy of "the box of twenty"?
Not at all.