Notgeld

Here is another great depiction of 'Deutscher Michel', a character similar to the Britsh 'John Bull':



The words ' Jungen Pumpsack - Olen Lumpsack! ' on the back of the note have the meaning :

'To the young it's a pot of money to borrow from, to the old it's a raggedy old purse.'
Here is the front of the note:

@jbuck - many thanks.
I really do hope that I can bring a lot of notes and pieces to 'life'. Almost all notgeld have a story to tell. Many, many of them contain graphics with hidden meanings, lovely quotes / sayings / rhymes and interesting things to understand about them. Over 163,000 different notgeld were produced - some with very large print runs and some with extremely small number of issues. The great mass from that number were the inflationary issues of 1923. Collectors can easily limit the number by only collecting a specific category of notgeld, specific types or specific area or topics. The notgeld collecting arena is magical for collectors!!

.......and here, a very scarce re-valued or overprinted piece - original face value of 1m has been increased to 100,000m and the note now has a serial number, giving it validity to be issued and used.

You are doing a gret job.

Quite like these 2 pieces

50 pfennig issued in Altona just around the end of WWI


50 pfennig issued in Schleswig 1920, I just love that type of artwork used on the number '50', nice colours & a nice dry seal imprint.

Thanks for the info notgeldman.

Thanks jbuck
@notgeldman, here are another 2 notes I have with the 'praegestempel' raised seal.

Bamberg (1918) & Neckersulm (1918)