| Author |
 Replies: 10 / Views: 5,828 |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
983 Posts |
Here is a picture of a fairly scarce set of 3 notgeld coins - made from compressed coal dust! Notgeld were made from some very interesting and unusual materials.  For coin collectors, there are quite a few 'non-metallic' notgeld coins one can collect, from different towns and cities of Germany, made from porcelain and maufactured by the Meissen Porcelain Factory. The coal-dust pieces, because of scarcity, are quite expensive, whereas some of the Meissen porcelain notgeld coins can be bought for under 10 dollars US each. You can see an example in pictures below. Hope this is interesting for some of you....... *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***  The world famous trademark of the 'crossed swords' can be seen on all the Meissen made porcelain coins. |
|
|
|
Moderator
 United States
187729 Posts |
Very interesting!  Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.  |
|
Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
983 Posts |
OK - super. Thanks! As you know, I'm new here so need to get my bearings a bit better. I want to share my notgeld knowledge and experience with anyone who shares my interest. Have a great day.
|
|
Moderator
United States
34397 Posts |
@ngm, first welcome to CCF. Second, while Notgeld isn't a particular interest of mine, you may find the following thread of interest as it deals with coins made from unusual materials including porcelain and coal: http://goccf.com/t/284136"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
|
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
5239 Posts |
 to the CCF There are a few of us who are very interested in Notgeld, and that includes me. Ihave one of the coal dust tokens, and there is at least one other person who does as well. |
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
I've always been interested in the coal pieces, but I don't own any of them. I just collect the metal municipal pieces. I believe I have somewhere a little north of 2000 different now. Mostly I collected by Lamb number, but I've also added the Funck numbers for municipalities that aren't in Lamb.
|
|
Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
I've always wanted to examine one of the coal ones. I've got a beautiful white porcelain one.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
983 Posts |
I have a bit of extra info about the compressed coal dust coins, including the following: The back of the 1000m piece has a man on it with initials 'S. F'. Apparently this stands for 'Sepp Frank'.  A total of 8500 compressed coal-dust coins were issued by Conrad Conradty of Rothenbach: 2500 pieces of the 100m coin were made 2500 pieces of the 500m coin were made 3500 pieces of the 1000m coin were made When I was researching these pieces, I made a table to record the coins' diameters, thicknesses, scratched in serial numbers and weights. These coins should always be blackgrey in colour. It is not known how many of these coins still exist today. I hope this is useful to somebody. Notgeld coins, as I have said in a previous post, are not really my real passion or expertise. I collect most types of notgeld including the unusual material pieces. |
|
Pillar of the Community
 United States
7934 Posts |
I have a handful of notgeld pieces for a very different reason: many of them show a return to a medieval form of showing the patron saint of the city which issued them.
Not a fit on this thread, but another interesting collecting angle.
Edited by tdziemia
01/21/2020 11:17 am
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
9395 Posts |
I have only metal and porcelain notgeld pieces, from Germany, France, and Dakar Senegal. I'd certainly like to have a compressed coal dust coin, but don't want to pay for it.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
983 Posts |
Notgeld showing the patron saint of the city........that would make a nice article. I'm aware of a lot of notes with medieval knights and castles etc but hadn't thought about the patron saint angle. Very specific but I like that.......I'll have a think and see if anything comes of it.
|
| |
Replies: 10 / Views: 5,828 |
|
Posted 01/20/2020 3:41 pm
