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

lordmarcovan · February 29, 2016 3:32PM

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.

Broadstruck · February 29, 2016 10:48PM

Neat and it's okay to drift

bronzemat · February 29, 2016 11:47PM

I saw when they had alot of those lots on sale. I thought about getting some for *****'s too, but didnt.

Swampboy · March 1, 2016 12:05AM

You think you're drifting

I found a whole new

hobby

lordmarcovan · March 1, 2016 12:23AM

Just think of that as a really big medal, Gil.

asheland · March 1, 2016 1:24AM

Cool lot!

YQQ · March 1, 2016 1:41AM

do you guys know what it says? I could translate.....

STLNATS · March 1, 2016 1:47AM

Originally posted by: YQQ

do you guys know what it says? I could translate.....

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

STLNATS · March 1, 2016 1:58AM

Nice group of notgeld Lord M. I've always liked these and from time to time casually pick them up when cheap or interesting or both. A lot of history/collecting opportunity in this series, altho there are tons of them and obsessive/compulsive nature I fear if I ever got serious I'd try to get them all!

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

YQQ · March 1, 2016 2:01AM

here it is:
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.

YQQ · March 1, 2016 2:03AM

Lord, About once a year there is an auction with only notgeld like this. it is in Germany but I can not remember which auction hous. they issue a hardbound catalogue and if you are a client it comes to your door...

STLNATS · March 1, 2016 3:08AM

The Heine quote (Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings) is well known for foreshadowing the Holocaust. Heine died in 1856 so he was quite prescient.

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

pmac · March 1, 2016 3:48AM

Whew! At first glance, I thought you had become a stamp collector. The porcelain notgeld is pretty interesting, but not quite as "pretty" as yours.

Zot · March 1, 2016 7:50AM

Great pieces! Colorful, and very interesting.

Looks like you could create the plot for Dracula if you had enough of those!

nicholasz219 · March 1, 2016 11:24AM

LM, it is so funny that you post this. I have been putting together some fun little sets of Notgeld over the past year as a couple of eBay sellers put stuff up. If you are lucky you can find a few guys that sell for $1 or under per note and start shipping at like $1.50 for a whole envelope of stuff.

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.

Jackthecat1 · March 1, 2016 11:41AM

Those notes are little works of art.

WillieBoyd2 · March 2, 2016 12:42AM

I saw a similar "book burning" marker in Frankfurt in 2012.

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

YQQ · March 2, 2016 11:56AM

Willie Boyd...
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.
H

pmac · March 3, 2016 10:55PM

How does this fit into your philosophy of "the box of twenty"?

lordmarcovan · March 7, 2016 3:29PM

Originally posted by: pmac

How does this fit into your philosophy of "the box of twenty"?

Not at all.

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

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