Notgeld Bearing Satirical Commentary

These two notes both originated in Thuringia.





The above 25 pfennig note has matching cartoons that purport to show mataphorically what 100 marks could buy in 1910 versus the relatively pitiful purchasing power of 500 marks a decade later. Of course, much worse in this vein was yet to come.





This second 50 pfennig note depicts a hausfrau complaining (beginning with her calling somebody a "miserable dog"), the gist of which I think is that she's spending an awful lot of money for way too little, but the German is very colloquial, and my translation skills fall far short of capturing the essence of what I imagine to be some dark humor here.