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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Anyone else collect these money substitute issues mainly from Germany after World War I,along with other notgeld and tokens? Let's see yours. Here are a few of mine.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cool! I never realized these types were issued anywhere but in the USA.
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Moderator
 Australia
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I only have two: a German notgeld one similar to the ones posted above, and this one from Barcelona, Spain:   Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
709 Posts |
Are those actual stamps on the tokens? How would they be used?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
731 Posts |
Actual stamps were used in variouus denominations. They are encapsulated in a thin plastic film to protect them. They could be used like any other storecard tokens
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
United States
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I have collected German odd material coins and currency for decades, focusing on porcelain coins. Only later did I start accumulating German encased postage.......which of course transitioned me off into encased postage all across Europe. And there is one from Argentina. And China.
I am the owner of Ephesus Numismatics on Vcoins and I think I have over 80 encased postage listed that consists of over 60 different. I guess I will brag. I believe I have the largest listing of non-US encased postage of any website in the world.
Sadly there are very few reference books on this topic. There is small hardback book that you can sometimes acquire called BRIEFMARKENKAPSGELD (the German word for encased postage) if you are lucky.
Also, Christian Gaertner ran an auction in February of 2014 that had a completely astounding array of encased postage. Crazy!
I can wax poetic about what I perceive as the different scarcities.
As for composition, the US encased postage had a mica film. I think that the plastic-like encasement on the German / French / Austrian encased postage is actually cellophane. The Oppach series very often has "bubbling" of the cellophane where is just wrinkles from age and bubbles.
I can dig out other reference books if there is interest.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Paul27613----Do any of your references list the Winnweiler Nordpfalzer Volksbank as pictured above? It supposedly is very scarce. It is not listed in Menzle.
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Valued Member
United States
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I looked through the Gaertner catalog end to end and did not see the Volksbank piece anywhere.
Definitely scarce!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Paul27613----Thanks for checking it out. From what I understand that Winnweiler bank only issued 2 types in small numbers. I have both types in less than perfect condition since I found them in a junk box at least 30 years ago. The only other pair I have seen recently are in the Gilles Blancon collection which I found on a Google search.
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Valued Member
United States
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I chatted with a very advanced collector and he also had never seen one and that Volksbank Nordpfälzer Winnweiler piece is not in Menzel (per what you said), Pick......or in his collection (grin). If you should ever consider selling I will connect you guys.
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