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Rudolstadtback

*anti-Semitic (‘aS’)……..or NOT!!

** These are historical documents of a bygone era and do not, in any way, reflect my own views ** Several notgeld issues mention ...
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*Baustein from Rathenow

Notes which are primarily receipts for donations to help fund a building project or renovation are know as ‘Baustein’ pieces. They can be seen ...
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*a ‘complete picture’ is created

GNCC member, Marcel, has created and provided a very interesting list of serienscheine sets, which when laid out in the right sequence and order, ...
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*Chess pieces

I have always thought this set of 3 from Stroebeck, is an interesting set of notes, with a chessboard and 2 pieces displayed in ...
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*Error notes

The 2 pieces of serienscheine notgeld below, issued in Hamburg, show one such example of an ‘error’ note. The black circle on the 1st ...
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*’Issue dates’ on serienscheine

As the whole phenomenon of notgeld issuing and collecting grew from 1914 onwards, the issues themselves became more colourful and more collectable. Notgeld were ...
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Bielefeld Jungd

*Jungdo issues

The following pieces were all issued for the ‘Jungdeutscher Orden‘, a para-military group of young German men. All the notgeld issues from the Jungdo ...
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‘Kleinscheck’ pieces/sets – part 1

Different sets or series can fall into similar groups, which can make notgeld collecting even more interesting. One such ‘sub-group’ could be seen as ...
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*’Kleinscheck’ pieces/sets – part 2

Hopefully you have already read the previous ‘kleinschecks part 1 ‘article first!! Whilst researching the kleinscheck (small cheque) pieces several ‘anomalies’ were spotted………………like the ...
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*Plebiscite notgeld issues

At the end of WWI, several elections were held by certain areas, to resolve the question of who a town wanted to be governed ...
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*Red Cross issues (Rotes Kreuz)

Collectors will hopefully have come across a few serienscheine notgeld issues which have the red cross symbol on them. The following set of 3 ...
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Ribnitz3 orange

*Reutergeld

Some collectors will have notes that have the word Reutergeld printed on them. These are a very colourful subset of the serienscheine category. The ...
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Suderodebad6

*Serial numbers

Serial numbers on German notgeld There is no difference in value for a note with a lower serial number….unless it is number ‘1’ or ...
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*Similar designs on serienscheine

Collectors will undoubtedly noticed that certain pieces of serienscheine have almost the same basic design as another piece that was issued somewhere else. This ...
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*’splittable’ notgeld

Notgeld that could be split into smaller face-valued parts: The following, is a list of notgeld, mostly serienscheine it seems, that could be ‘split’ ...
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*’Steel Helmet’ organisations

After the end of WWI, several veteran military groups were set up by the German soldiers who returned home. Some of these are designated ...
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*Town names (normal)…..

There are a few sets of notgeld, where the place of issue is spelt out on the individual notes in a series. Here is ...
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*uncatalogued serienscheine

Lindman’s ‘SERIENSCHEINE Band 2 : SPEZIALKATALOG‘ contains almost all the serienscheine variant pieces a collector will ever come across. These include differences with serial ...
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*Unissued printer drafts – ‘ghost towns’

Some very, very interesting pieces were shown to me recently by GNCC member, Marcel. They were spotted on eBay but unfortunately Marcel didn’t win ...
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*Unissued/draft notgeld – Schoetmar!

For some time now, we have been aware of some unissued / draft notgeld from Schoetmar. We saw an article in the press and ...
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*Used serienscheine

Serienscheine notgeld, as a category, are often dismissed by world banknote collectors and German banknote collectors alike, as those people think they weren’t issued ...
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Scarce Hamburg piece

*very scarce & rare pieces

Picture of the 100 TEEOHS and info about the design was supplied by GNCC member Nate Butler. (The design was inspired by the design ...
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Altenburgorange

*very rare unpictured pieces

Rare ‘serienscheine’ pieces not pictured in the catalogues:   Alleringhausen Altenburg (Kalendermann) 20.1 – 2.5 Groschen note   Bochum (Jungdeutscher Orden) 126.? – green ...
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*variants – a basic list

For notgeld collectors around the world, collecting the colourful serienscheine pieces is such a fantastic hobby. The catalogues cover the sets so it is ...
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*variants – further info and pictures

For collectors, the notgeld issues seemed perfect! A place could issue a set and hopefully the collectors would like them and would therefore buy ...
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*’The white lady’

A couple of notgeld pieces I have stumbled upon feature ‘the white lady’, I guess some sort of myth or local folklore. In the ...
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