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9th March 2021 at 1:57 am #34934
Based on the serial number of the note in the photo, there could be some 40,000 of these notes outstanding. Probably more. What could have happened to all of them? Stored in someone’s attic perhaps?
Again, for that high a valuation, counterfeiting is a strong possibility.
8th March 2021 at 10:20 pm #34932I have not been on the forum for a while. Â To Charles, yes I have the notes you referred to. Â I have the Erfurt set. Very colorful. I do not speak German, so I often need help with translations. For the Erfurt set, I would like help in identifying the buildings depicted on each note of the set. Â I believe I recognize the monestery which Luther joined. Â I do also collect other Luther items such as stamps, medals, postcards. Â Dan
8th March 2021 at 7:46 am #34930We’ve stayed in Saarbrücken a couple of times in the last few years - a nice town, in a pretty area, and with a great swimming pool : the Calypso. I had a look in the latest Rosenberg catalogue (completely updated and re-numbered by Grabowski in 2018) to see the catalogue price and wow, sure enough it’s actually 15,000 euros! So the price on ebay is, well, for want of a better word, right. Also the catalogue gives the price of 20,000 euros for the whole set of 1947 Saar specimen notes with a zero serial number; that’s quite eye-watering. And possibly a reminder not to inadvertently scratch one’s nose at an auction.
7th March 2021 at 10:57 pm #34929My wife was born in Saarbrücken, way before the war. Saarbrücken is the capital of the Saarland region, which was French for a few years after the war. That’s why the note is denominated as 100 Marks and the French “Cent”.
As a complete aside, did you know that the fraction of the Italian Lira (pre-Euro) was called Centissimi? I always got a kick out of that word.
Found a colored photo of that note. Incidentally, you have to be very wary of Ebay prices. People can ask anything, doesn’t mean they’ll get it.
For a note that expensive, I’m willing to bet that someone would counterfeit it.
7th March 2021 at 10:49 pm #34928Yes, of course, RS is Rückseite, or backside. As in Rucksack or backpack (do they still use that word?). Sorry, my mind isn’t nearly as sharp as it once was. Hope I’m not getting the big “A”.
7th March 2021 at 10:31 pm #34927Glad I restricted my collecting from 1914 – 1923/4 !!
I always remember VS as front and RS as back (reverse).
When you get into different watermarks, always best to hold the piece up to a window in the light of day…..I’ve always found. They I refer back to my catalogues as they have the main watermarks listed in the front or back….can’t remember which. There is also a link on my ‘other links’ tab to a good watermarks site I found a long time ago……..if you ever need that!
Thanks guys for all the forum posts!
7th March 2021 at 10:21 pm #34926I just looked for that note on Ebay but didn’t see it. Here is a picture from Grabowski’s 2006 catalog:
7th March 2021 at 9:09 pm #34922DEEP POCKETS? It’s a little outside our usual area of collection, but falls under the topic of German Notgeld – there is currently a kassenfrisch 1947 100-Mark note from the Saarland (catalogues as Rosenberg 872/SAR-13) on ebay for a reserve price of 15,000.00 euros! There’s a description of it, but no picture of it – the vendor explains that the note itself is in a safety deposit box so he’s substituted a picture of another note (an old Wilhelmine colonial issue), just to give people zapping through an idea of the kind of note on offer.
Has anyone seen a German note with this kind of price tag? Or even more expensive? Could be a conversation starter!
5th March 2021 at 8:24 pm #34911Glad to help. A little, anyway. Now if someone could help me identify my piece, please? I posted it last night (Pacific time) under the new topic: “Identification”.
5th March 2021 at 8:20 pm #34910Hi Gary,
Thanks for the fantastic information
I believe my note is 27.3 as I noticed the 0 is larger on the right at the back
Cheers
5th March 2021 at 8:20 pm #34909You’re welcome, Gary – in fairness, it could just as easily have been Rechte Seite (right side)!
5th March 2021 at 8:18 pm #34908Ouch, ouch, ouch. And I’ve been reading RS as right side. Thank you!!!!!!!!!
5th March 2021 at 8:14 pm #34907Hi Graham and Gary, Rs. stands for Rückseite (back side or reverse) rather than Right Side. On the back, the text is printed either black for all three denominations, or red for 10 Pf, blue for 25 Pf. and green for 50 Pf. As yours is green, Graham, I think it’s one of the notes I mentioned?
5th March 2021 at 8:10 pm #34906Btw, as far as I can make out,
Grabowski L48.2c would be Tieste 4125.05.07
Grabowski L48.3c would be Tieste 4125.05.12
Grabowski L48.4c would be Tieste 4125.05.17
Grabowski L48.6c would be Tieste 4125.05.27
5th March 2021 at 8:06 pm #34905Since the RS (right side) seems to be the same as the left side, i.e. same size letters, not in color, I’d guess ’03’, listed at $30, or ’22’, listed at $20, depending on watermark and condition, is where your note falls.
5th March 2021 at 8:02 pm #34904Here is the page from the more extensive Tieste catalog:
5th March 2021 at 7:56 pm #34903Hi Graham, it’s under L48 in H.-L.Grabowski’s catalogue Deutsches Notgeld Band 5 : Deutsche Kleingeldscheine : Amtliche Verkehrsausgaben 1916-1922 (Aachen-Lingen). It would have as a  watermark either Schippen (L48.2c or L48.3c) or Kreuze in Quadraten (L48.4c) or Zickzacklinien (L48.6c). Checking the watermark will narrow it down first; if it’s Schippen, then to decide whether it’s L48.2c or L48.3c you’d have to measure the denominational value on the back, the “50†– if it’s “fat†i.e. 6-6.5 mm wide, then it’s L48.2c; if it’s “half-fat†i.e. 4.5-5mm wide, then it’s L48.3c.
I think! But I’m happy to be corrected! Sometimes the intricacies of difference on the variants make my eyes water and my brain shut down.
The reverse translates as : “This coupon is only intended for transactions with the municipal authorities of Lingen and is valid until the 1st April 1920. All municipal finance offices of Lingen will accept this coupon in payment; they will also upon demand and upon presentation of said coupons of the town of Lingen pay out in national currency and in full sum in marks to the same denominational value.â€
It’s signed on behalf of the town council (der Magistrat) and the Bürgervorsteherkollegium, which was (specifically in the Prussian province of Hannover and its pre-1866 predecessor the Kingdom of Hannover) a committee of citizens elected to scrutinise and oversee and pass a town council’s financial dealings.
On the front, the town’s coat of arms showing three towers (gold on a red field) derives from Lingen’s three town gates – the Castle Gate, the Looken Gate and the Mill Gate. The crown above it is a margrave’s crown which may reference the medieval overlords of the town, either the counts of Tecklenburg or their successors the counts of Lingen.
Hope this helps a bit!
5th March 2021 at 7:45 pm #34902Hi Gary,
Thanks but which one? I noticed they have 3 different 50pfg notes, which one is my note is?
Cheers
5th March 2021 at 7:38 pm #34901Here is the Tieste page for Lingen. It appears that the text is not in color. Regarding the thickness of the numerals, hard to say without something to compare it to. They seem to be half-fat. Can’t see the watermarks. T-GM would know best.
5th March 2021 at 5:25 pm #34899And the backÂ
5th March 2021 at 5:24 pm #34898Can anyone help me about this one? :unsure:Â
2nd March 2021 at 6:51 pm #348874 variant pieces now. Serial (with and without asterisk) and 2 further pieces stamped ‘Ungultig’ in purple and green. Anyone interested in them as they are on my desk!………
1st March 2021 at 11:50 pm #34886Here is a lovely looking note from Crefeld dating from 1918 and depicting a silk weaver:
The raised stampmark is known/denoted as ‘pragestempel’
1st March 2021 at 1:05 am #34873Thanks Gary! I think I will add this in. There is an article about the ‘AOK’ on the website as I stumbled upon a great looking note from Saulgau and wanted to write about that.
The red cross article is under serienscheine category so your note fits in well – thanks again.
27th February 2021 at 9:41 pm #34870Under the topic of curiosities, I came across this Salzungen piece yesterday. The Red Cross article reminded me of this because it’s a scene of a hospital.
Anyway, it seems this piece is not a rarity. It’s marked 75 on one side and 95 on the other. There’s a little red stamp that says it’s only worth 75pf.
27th February 2021 at 1:59 am #34869I have just published my ‘Red Cross‘ issues article. Please have a look from the homepage (right hand side) – latest articles. Let me know of others please:
27th February 2021 at 12:55 am #3486626th February 2021 at 11:13 am #34860Gary – These Altrahlstedt notes are very interesting and there is an article on the website about them. They are also included in my ‘German Gems‘ book as I know a lot of collectors will be like you. There are 3 different overprints – 2 in black with different dates and 1 in blue (from memory??) …..so a few to collect!
When these were originally issued (1921) the hyper-inflation wasn’t there. In 1922 ‘remaining’ pieces were then over-stamped and ‘re-issued’.
Serienscheine were issued to collectors and anyone who wanted them for a price. They were extremely popular so ‘everyone’ started to produce them and jump on the band-wagon so to speak.
Here is my website article :
26th February 2021 at 1:34 am #34859THIS IS THE 3RD PART OF MY POST, THE FINAL JPEG, THE BACK OF THE NOTGELD:
26th February 2021 at 1:32 am #34858THIS IS MY NEXT POST, THE SALES CATALOG PAGE FROM TIESTE:
26th February 2021 at 1:30 am #34857DISCLAIMER: This post is in 3 parts. Why? Because I’m having trouble adding my jpegs to it. Possibly they are too large. Therefore, I’ll do the text here, the next post will have the 1st jpeg, the following post will have the 2nd jpeg. I hope this all works.
Here’s the text:
So, sorting my heaps of notgeld, I come across this set. Thought I really had it made. Here is the sales page from Tieste:
SEE NEXT POST FOR THIS JPEG
How wonderful, I thought. Out of curiosity, I wondered what the several-year-old Lindman catalog had it listed for. Then: “DOOM”. Lindman had a small notation that overprinted issues were NOT Serienschiene. So of course, all of mine had the overprint. All had the same overprint. One sample here :
SEE THE 2ND FOLLOWING POST FOR THIS JPEG
So disappointed. But…life goes on.
Anyway, this made me think: What exactly defines notes as Serienschiene? Did the various towns just hand them out or sell tlhem? And what could you do with them? Bread costing thousands or millions of Mark, what could you buy for 50 pennies or so?
25th February 2021 at 9:50 pm #34853John – my ‘Forum Guru’ indeed
25th February 2021 at 8:51 pm #34851Hi John, it’s the 25 Pfennig note from Rudolph Schade’s inn on the Brocken Mountain (Brockenwirtschaft) near Schierke in the Harz region, catalogued by Grabowski / Mehl as 1177.2 and by Kai Lindman as 1147.1 (without the additional circular stamp). There is indeed a Fairy Tale Forest (Märchenwald) mini theme park at nearby Bad Harzburg, about 6 or 7 miles away, and it may be that this or another attraction of the same name dates back to the early 20th century, but I suspect that this the word and the pictures are just a reference to the fairy-tale nature of the forests both up on the Brocken and all around the Harz. By the time the notes were issued, the innkeeper Rudolph Schade had written a book in 1909 entitled The Brocken and its Features of Natural Beauty in Summer and Winter; he followed up with The Book of the Brocken and The Brocken : Treatises on the Mountain’s History and Nature, both published in 1926 by E. Appelhans & Co., Brunswick.
I was up on the Brocken in 2019 in the most frightfully cold and rainy weather (it was nice when I set out on the Brocken steam train at the foot of the mountain, but the weather changed). The inn is still there at the uppermost train halt, although it was closed for the whole of the Cold War due to the mountain being a major East German listening station. I can say that the forests and the rock formations on the way up and down, a paradise (in better weather) for hikers such as the 19th-century poet Heinrich Heine, might well be described as fairy tale, or at least “other-worldly.”
25th February 2021 at 8:00 pm #34847Thanks Chuck. See what you can do but don’t worry too much
25th February 2021 at 7:58 pm #34846John,
Its notgeld!
24th February 2021 at 11:14 pm #34845I get it because I am a member of the ANA. But I only get a digital version. Maybe I can print it, scan it and share it. I’ll try.
24th February 2021 at 11:10 pm #34844I’ve greatly enjoyed all the posts here and have certainly learned a lot since I’m new to collecting notgeld. I thought it would be funny to share this piece of “erroneous notgeld” I found. A few months ago I purchased a pack of 100 pieces of notgeld just to understand more about it and see the diversity and history. However, I think a piece of “money” from the Fairy Tale Theme Park near Brocken made it into the pack. You can see that it looks a lot like notgeld, it looks old-ish, and has a colorful design that could be notgeld. However, my guess is from the fact it says “not for public use” that this is theme park money.
Thought it would be good for a chuckle from you all. Or…maybe one of you actually knows something about this.
24th February 2021 at 11:07 pm #34843Thanks John.
Thanks Chuck. Does anyone have a copy of the article or do you have to have a subscription etc?
24th February 2021 at 9:44 pm #34842Sorry. That should read the March issue of the Numismatist. Darn autocorrect.
24th February 2021 at 9:42 pm #34841For anyone interested there is a very interesting article in the March issue of The Numismatic on Reutergeld. I found it to be very informative.
24th February 2021 at 5:34 pm #34840Hi Tony, the sentence reads : “The notes previously catalogued here are Verkehrsausgaben“. I imagine they were originally catalogued as Serienscheine in earlier editions (Grabowski & Mehl are currently on their 3rd edition of volumes 1 & 2), but now that they’ve been re-catalogued as Verkehrausgaben, the authors have added the note for users of the previous editions (and to save re-numbering the entire catalogue). There’s a similar note for the series of the Osnabrück Freemasons’ Lodge of the Golden Wheel (G / M 1029A1), where the authors have reconsidered an entry made in a previous edition (here they inform the reader that these notes are in fact a modern print run of 1970-73; the information was provided by Lodge members). [Just checked : the Grube Ilse correction was already made for the 2nd edition; the Osnabrück correction appears for the first time in the 3rd edition.] As you say, Lindman doesn’t include the Grube Ilse set in Band 2 : Spezialkatalog – Serienscheine; nor does he include the Osnabrück notes.
24th February 2021 at 3:59 pm #34839The Gr/Mehl entry for Grube Ilse (487) has a couple of sentences in German. Can someone translate it for me please? I am guessing that Grabowski / Mehl is making a point that the set could be serienscheine rather than private verkehrsausgaben pieces? I don’t know why they have given them a serienscheine catalogue number?? My rule, I always stick to, is this…..’if it isn’t catalogued by Lindman in his Band 2 spezial serienscheine catalogue, then it isn’t serienscheine.
23rd February 2021 at 8:41 pm #34838Thanks John for the info. What a shame German notgeld ‘missed out’ on this subject matter. The Austrian types I think look superb.
22nd February 2021 at 10:38 pm #34837Germany has got its Krampus traditions, mainly in Southern Bavaria near Austria but also in the Upper Palatinate apparently.  There.s even a parade of 400 Krampuses planned in Munich for Advent 2021, which I’d love to get my camera to. Apparently the grotesque figure is also a feature of Advent in other parts of the former Habsburg empire, in Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, South Tyrol and the Trentino. There’s a lot of it about, so it seems, but not on German Notgeld!
22nd February 2021 at 5:07 pm #34836I’ve heard he beats them with his birch twigs. It seems funny to me that he doesn’t appear on any German notgeld though…..just Austrian. Maybe Germany is too western for the mythology??
21st February 2021 at 1:21 am #34828Regarding Krampus, if I recall correctly, he is supposed to bring children a sack of coal for Christmas if they’ve been bad.
21st February 2021 at 12:35 am #34827Here is an Austrian set of notgeld with an overprint depicting ‘Krampus’. He doesn’t appear on any German notgeld (that I am aware of). He is a kind of demonic opposite of Santa Claus, who rather than giving good children presents, punishes bad children!
19th February 2021 at 11:17 pm #34824FYI – I have just amended the forum rankings so pls don’t worry if yours has changed. The more posts you add, the higher your ranking.
I am aware there are a few niggles with the forum but please just reply to the top (latest) post…..even if the reply is to another thread. I have removed ‘nesting’ so that any new post from now on should show at the very top. Once posted, you may have to reposition to pg 1 (top of the forum) for some unknown reason it might place you somewhere different. I am sure we can all work with it though. It is better than nothing. – thanks in advance.
19th February 2021 at 10:47 am #34816All the GNCC members are very clever in their own particular way. Together, we all form a fantastic group of specialised collectors. Those with German translation and history skills are particularly helpful to us all. Don’t forget, the more posts you make the higher your ranking goes. I just noticed mine has changed but I didn’t really intend that to happen. I might change the ‘top limit’ of posts made……
18th February 2021 at 11:47 pm #34813I could have used you when I was trying to interpret the sayings on beer steins. Anyway, your title of Guru is well-deserved. My own German consists of spending my first 5 years of life in Vienna, supplemented slightly in later life.
I’ll never forget that I decided I knew enough German to take a 4th semester college course. Class had 8 people, of which all except me had heavy German accents. Instead of reading Max und Moritz type stuff, the teacher threw philosophers at us, Schopenhauer, Heine, etc. Translations were way over my head. I sent them to my father for help and he had trouble with them.
The tests were in English and questions were like: “Compare the philosophy of Kant when he says … to the philosophy of Heine who writes …” I eecked a “C” out of the course. Even spent 1/2 year in Frankfurt for my company in a task force that spoke mostly English. That was 50 years ago. Anyway, with little chance to practice, I’ve become extremely rusty.
Austrian and German are almost identical, perhaps 99% alike. Austrians call potatoes Erdeffeln (earth apples) and Germans call them Kartoffeln. There are a bunch of other words too. But all Austrians will tell you they speak German. I don’t think Austrian is even called a language.
18th February 2021 at 6:22 pm #34805…..but you were right also with Braunschweig…..as pointed out to me by Marcel!!
The bottom left hand side picture shows Raabe!
18th February 2021 at 1:35 pm #34804Ha! Moving it to the E section.
18th February 2021 at 1:13 pm #34803John – yes you are right but the note is issued and catalogued under Eschershausen. Well done you!
18th February 2021 at 12:06 pm #34802I remembered the name because I had never heard of Wilhelm Raabe before. These are such great touchstones of history and culture.
18th February 2021 at 11:04 am #34801Can you show me the note pls John…..
17th February 2021 at 11:48 pm #34800Braunschweig!! I just started collecting, but I have that one!
17th February 2021 at 11:35 pm #34799Can anyone tell me (…..but not Marcel or Charles!!)………what town issued a notgeld which shows this portrait?Â
16th February 2021 at 8:35 pm #34792Here is a nice interesting ‘block of 4’ piece of Austrian notgeld with face values in ‘heller’. The total face value is 1Kr & 80h – very unusual. It was issued for the collector market and you can see that this piece is a 3rd issue of 1500 pieces.
15th February 2021 at 9:18 pm #34782Thanks John – I’ll add it in…..
15th February 2021 at 6:46 pm #34781Hi Tony,  voran is an adverb with several meanings and senses in English. It could be mean “Oberhof : out in front” or “Oberhof : ahead of all others” as a simple local patriotic statement, or be an encouraging slogan, in the sense of “Oberhof : ever onwards”.
15th February 2021 at 6:36 pm #34780Thanks Charles – all info now uploaded to the article.
Marcel just gave me ‘OBERHOF’ so I have added that into the ‘spelt out town names’ post.
The notes actually say OBERHOF VORAN. Do you know what that means or refers to ?
By the way, I changed the order of the posts so the newest is at the top. Just reply to that and you should be ok………..I can change it back if members prefer it…..but lets see how it pans out for a few weeks first.
15th February 2021 at 5:14 pm #34774Read from top to bottom: RA N Z E LÂ &Â ST E CH E R : Backpack and Knivers
On the other side of the RA / ST-note we read;
Gen einen Bären zog man aus. Des Schäfers Ranzen wurde raus
Drum ward der Güstener bekannt  Als Ranzelstecher rings im Land
People went to hunt a bear, who got to become the sheperd’s backpack
That’s why the people from Güsten came to be known as Backpack-Knivers in the vicinity
15th February 2021 at 1:24 pm #34771I have just posted the Guesten article under the ‘serienscheine’ topic main menu item.
15th February 2021 at 12:52 pm #34767Do you have a picture Roeland to make things easier?
15th February 2021 at 11:48 am #34765I have this note. it’s not easy to find one by the way.
(this is about the Hungary P137)
14th February 2021 at 6:12 pm #34753Not really what I wanted as it nested the reply……but we can see what people think.
If some members login to read what is going on at least they can just read downwards.
14th February 2021 at 6:05 pm #34752Reply test – should be the newest post and at the top…..
14th February 2021 at 6:04 pm #34751I have changed the order of the posts so the newest one is at the top rather than the bottom. We can see if this makes things better/easier. To add a new post, the box is still at the bottom of the posts……so use the reply button on the top post……that should do it. I’ll do that now…..
13th February 2021 at 9:44 pm #34733Hi John – brilliant as always
I’ll do an article on them as they are an interesting set and not particularly common. All this wonderful info won’t get lost! It reminds me of the Ditfurt ‘geelbein’ / yellow legs story
13th February 2021 at 7:02 pm #34729Hi Tony, you have to read the left-hand sides RÄ-N-Z-E-L and the right-hand sides ST-E-CH-E-R to give you the word RÄNZELSTECHER.  Ränzelstecher is a nickname for an inhabitant of Güsten (it can be singular or plural). It means : “Knapsack-Stabber”. The legend is on back of the N-E note in the silhouette picture and the poem, about a bear hunt which ended in an unusual and amusing way : “The men went out to hunt a bear, / They ended up getting the knapsack of the shepherd, / And thus the Güstener has since been known / As the Knapsack-Stabber all around the country.” You can see the shepherd with his crook, asleep under a tree in the left hand side of the silhouette. The bear hunters mistake the shepherd’s satchel hanging on the tree for a bear and stab it with a spear.
13th February 2021 at 6:30 pm #34724Whilst writing my article on town names spelt out on notgeld sets…..along with other names of things, places or people, Marcel has pointed me to Gr/Mehl-494.1 Guesten. On the obverses, those 5 pieces spell out RA ST  N E  Z CH  E E  L R. (I haven’t got a picture of the fronts but show the backs below) Can someone tell me what that means pls??
13th February 2021 at 12:04 pm #34714This note is for Egy milliard -1000 ‘B'(billion) pengos. It was issued by the National bank of Hungary. They sometimes have an ‘official’ bank stamp stuck onto them (a physical stamp that is). Hungary’s inflation was indeed worse than the earlier German hyper-inflation. It’s a national issue so isn’t notgeld. Interesting though – thanks Gary.
13th February 2021 at 4:54 am #34713I came across this article by Googling. Of course, you have to distinguish between currency issued by a federal government that is legal tender, and the notgeld issued by the various towns. I don’t know whether the notgeld from one town would be valid in another town.
13th February 2021 at 1:57 am #34711The bottom note of the 3 below, taught ne my first phrase of German, many, many years ago. I haven’t learnt a lot in German since then, unfortunately.
‘Badder mit rat‘ – ‘Father take care‘. It is of course referring to a warning the son is giving his Father for his next chess move:
The town of Stroebeck issued another ‘chess’ set
12th February 2021 at 5:46 pm #34693My Muechen piece is definitely slightly smaller…..by 1mm……….so I would say Guinness Book of Records is incorrect
It would greatly depend on where these pieces were cut though as they are hand-cut and presumably by the issuer. Its all interesting!!
12th February 2021 at 1:14 pm #34677I’ve just posted the German-Danish article. Please have a look – it shows up on the homepage on the righthand side as well. (‘Latest articles’ section)
https://notgeld.com/gncc-notgeld-articles/german-danish-notgeld/
12th February 2021 at 10:20 am #34638Hi Charles, that’s great to know that you have the experience and expertise in those dialects! One of my first Notgeld enthusiasms was the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite and its associated issues, from which I then specialised a little bit in Schleswig Holstein Serienscheine and Verkehrsausgaben. I shall re-visit that part of my collection, and I’m sure I shall be asking you for your kind help. Westphalian and Mecklenburg and other northern dialects still leave me scratching my head occasionally; the dialect of German I speak most fluently is the southwestern Palatine German, and there are relatively few notes from this area as it was firmly under the thumb of French occuption from 1918 to 1930. There are war issues and inflation issues, but Grabowski / Mehl has only two listings for Serienscheine of the region of the Pfalz.
12th February 2021 at 9:58 am #34636Ok I seem to get it now:
4 attemts (call them experiments) landed on Mars, so I out-economized both yhe Amaricans and the Arabs.
Work of Alfred Hanf, noted expressionist from Erfurt. For more, check Erfurt-Luther, Gebesee, Genthin, Genthin-Bismarck, Sömmerda, Weissensee.
Uploaded as favourite series and for Luther-afficionados; L studied law in Erfurt.
The reverse-sides of these are also a sight to behold, but that’s where the uploads went wrong…..
12th February 2021 at 9:44 am #346333rd Attempt,
apparently 2 DID land on Mars. Iout-economize the Americans and Arabs!!
For Luther-afficionados and re my favourite series:
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11th February 2021 at 11:01 pm #34604I just copied this rom the Guinness book of world-records:
So who wins now?
11th February 2021 at 10:37 pm #34600Possible dupe! I sent this already but it didn’t show-up.
This one’s also double-sided!
There’s another one fm Bunzlau, about as big as the printed surface of the above.
11th February 2021 at 9:08 pm #34595Hi Roeland!- I haven’t heard about the Dinslaken note but someone might know ? The 200 Billionen note from Crefeld is the highest issued notgeld that I am aware of…..but I only ever saw a facsimile of it, which I posted on the website. I know someone who had one though.
11th February 2021 at 8:00 pm #34594Hi all! What’s the highest value Notgeld note ever printed? I’m pretty sure I once read about a Eine Billiarde Mark note from Dinslaken (That’s 1.000.000.000.000.000 Marks, 15 zeroes) that was never issued, but still printed. However, I can’t find anything about it anymore. Did I dream that up? I know of several 20 Billionen and 50 Billionen notes and I think a 200 Billionen from Crefeld?
11th February 2021 at 4:58 pm #34593I have just posted the article for notes that spell out town names and a few extras………
https://notgeld.com/gncc-notgeld-articles/town-names-spelt-out/
11th February 2021 at 4:32 pm #34588Currently, Marcel is winning on the double-sided smallest note and I am still winning for the uniface piece. Any other challengers!!??
11th February 2021 at 3:47 pm #34582Thanks Marcel – I will add those place names to the article I am writing
Salzwedel ‘W. Tell’ good shout. I think you might be winning!!
11th February 2021 at 1:25 pm #34581My smallest notes are from Salzwedel: Marken-Versand W.Tell
Other places spelled-out: Quedlinburg: Kreis and Gräfenhainichen: Stadt
11th February 2021 at 11:32 am #34579Hi Dan Gerken,
I do hope you speak German, if so, I hope the following link may be of value to you:
Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg;
altekirchen.de   broschure-2017-gesamt.pdf
On first scan interesting articles including materiala on Luther.
Or maybe there’s a Google-translator-programme!
Happiness, keep nose pointed to sky.
Ch.
PS: I lived in Germany, so I might be able to help you with translations too.
10th February 2021 at 10:55 pm #34576Noted
10th February 2021 at 10:53 pm #34575Yep – very small double-sided piece
10th February 2021 at 8:31 pm #34571Hi folks!
this surely isn’t the smallest piece of Notgeld around, but I guess it’s the smallest item to figure as “banknote”, and not as a one-side-printed piece of carton.
Height: approx a 10 Euro-cent coin.
10th February 2021 at 8:22 pm #34570For the newer collectors – This is the 25goldpfennig piece which is the lady’s heel. The 50gpf slightly bigger in size piece is the man’s heel.
10th February 2021 at 8:08 pm #34569Vicken
I just found a clear picture of this piece:
Vorsteher = director o the board,
Gemeinderat = city-council
Ch
10th February 2021 at 7:52 pm #34568Hi Vicken
I think it says TAUSCH Wertschein; Tauschen meaning: to exchange
Dorfreher should be VORSTEHER, Vorstand being the board or town-council,
It is a nice piece of non-inflatory money, with guaranteed value in gold and/or US-Dollars.
Ch.
10th February 2021 at 7:40 pm #34567Hi John,
I would like (but Very humbly indeed!) to add the following: I spent one year with the Dutch Nato-Forces in Schleswig-Holstein, far too short to pick up the local Dithmarscher Platt decently, and I worked in Hamburg for 8 years (minus 1 week). The Dutch and German languages AS SPOKEN are more closely related to each other than any of the both of them is to English, although all 3 of them belong to the same greater language-group. The little poems and Floskel in Dialekt on the Notgeld-Scheine is what makes me collect Northern-German banknotes.
There is a small chance that I might recognize some words in dialect relatively easy concerning form or sound, so if I can be of any help there, just let me know. Just trying is already fun !
Respectully,
Charles
10th February 2021 at 7:07 pm #34566Great idea, Tony. Here’s one more !
10th February 2021 at 7:06 pm #34565Thanks so much! This helps me get a good idea of how to get organized!
10th February 2021 at 7:05 pm #3456410th February 2021 at 6:52 pm #34563Roger, Wilco, Chief !!! Just mail me !
10th February 2021 at 1:46 pm #34561Vicken – I just edited your post with the great link – just so that it opened up in a new window.
I can’t seem to find it though so I will add the link here – thanks again!!
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