Notgeld

There's a website called notgeld.com which has information. There are so many notgeld out there, each city or area produced its own, often not even for currency, but to make money.

Yeah, thats a good deal. They usually sell for $1-2 in UNC condition.

I to think you have a point there Thai-vic.

Alot of them cut by fake.....

Groendrup

Could well be. But keep in mind that most of those nicely designed colorful notgeld notes were made with collectors in mind. Such notes circulated to a very limited extent; the cities and whoever else issued them wanted people to buy them and not turn them in ...

Christian

Almost all the notgeld you see out there will be genuine. Look at some of the serial numbers............some are greater than 500,000 so that is a lot of each note. As there are so many different pieces out there to be collected, it would only be profitable for a forger to try and possibly forge a 'rarer' piece. As has been said before, average price per piece can be seen as 1 dollar US.......for any 'common' note. Wouldn't be worth the forger's time and effort at that price, especially as the market has literally thousands upon thousands of other designs to collect. I tell most of my collector colleagues to generally not worry about forgeries in the notgeld world. Some are known, but they are very very few indeed. Some collectors are put off straight away because of the pristine condition of most serienscheine pieces (series or sets). It's such a shame that happens. Most serienscheine never went into circulation, because they were not printed to do that. Many examples can be found of serienscheine pieces that were circualted and used though.

@notgeldman, I have the 10 pfennig which matches your 5 pfennig in the bottom picture (top right)
Although my serial number is placed differently

@oriole, I have to disagree with you slightly as there are hundreds upon hundreds of 'scarce' notgeld pieces out there to collect....with matching catalogue and market values. Yes, you might be able to buy a pack of 1000 different fairly cheaply, but do that more than twice and duplicates will start really mounting up. It is also fairly difficult to then try and find and purchase the possible missing 1 or 2 pieces from a set. It starts out being fun but after several years you could end up with a very basic collection that doesn't even have complete sets. I'm my opinion, it is always best to try and get better pieces into your collection, if 'hobby money' allows that. I would much prefer to buy 1 'scarcer' single notgeld for 50 dollars, let's say.....than 50 or even 100 'common' pieces. All the notgeld collectors will have the 'common' sets but very few will have a lot of the better pieces.
I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong in how they collect but I've been doing this for more than 46 years now ........and trust me....over time, you do learn your mistakes.
Number and places of issue....and even types of notgeld issues are recorded out there. The more collector gets passionate about notgeld collecting the more there is too learn.
Thanks to everyone for the interest in any of my posts. I can help a lot of people out regarding notgeld I'm sure.

Here is a lovely rare complete set of 3 notgeld from Sundwig. They catalogue under Lm.1273 & Gr/Mehl-1305.1 with a value of 300 euros each. There are no variant pieces. The notes issued by 'H. Meise' depict bones of large bears and scenes from the area known as 'Heinrichs Hollow' near the town. It states the bones they found there in 1904 were 2.2metres long and 1.1metres high. The face values of the 3 notese are 50pf, 1m & 2m. The notes are undated but were issued in 1921.