German Notgeld Collector Of 46 Years, From Uk.

Interesting pair.

Here are 3 'strips' of 5 x 1, 2 & 3pf very small sized (uncut) verkehrsausgaben notgeld from Passau. Each individual square/piece is approx 20mm x 20mm:

Here are 5 interesting Austrian pieces dating from 1920 and issued on ration cards:

They were issued in Mauerkirchen. Here is another similar piece, but this time, it was made from a military field postcard (Feldpost).:

@jbuck - yes, almost anything that was lying about could be used or recycled as notgeld. The basic appearance of these pieces show they were a quick response to a shortage of small change and also throws light on the fact that these were provisional issues and not State ones, to be used throughout the whole country. At these times, the notgeld issuers did not want any unnecessary problems coming their way from their Governments, who actually seemed quite happy for these notgeld issues to be made and which they knew would alleviate some of the problems in the monetary systems. The notgeld pieces have a similarity with the more usual State issued banknotes of the times- ie) not issued predominantly with a nice design or colours so that people actually looked at the money. They were just exchanged in the economic necessity in which they had been created.

I think I have previously mentioned some of the recycled items that were used. They make for great additions for any money based collection: postcards, photographs, lottery tickets, 'clocking-in' cards, railway tickets, playing cards and even earlier issued banknotes! I'll show next something that I haven't mentioned before I think..................old calendars!