| On these pages you will find an ever
growing catalog of Notgeld Paper Notes and brief information pertaining to
each coin such as country, city, town, person or theme depicted on the
coin. Notgeld is a term used for the wide variety of mostly German or
Austrian emergency money issued by local governments or businesses during
wartime and other crisis. Although notgeld was issued over a wider time
span, most bills on these pages were printed between 1914-1923. These
interesting footnotes in numismatic history were produced at the local
level by cities, towns, businesses and organizations to fill the need for
currency not being met by the government. They were issued for the lowest
denominations to the ridiculously high denominations produced during
hyperinflation. Practical use was limited and they were often printed to
be sold and collected much like one would baseball cards. there are
thousands of varieties with wide ranging, artistic, social and political
themes using mostly alternative material such as iron, zinc,
porcelain, paper, leather, aluminum foil, and cloth. |
