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New Member
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Please help me to indentify this coin. Thanks 
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Rest in Peace
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Transportation or gaming token, foreign?
Naples, Italy?
Edited by Crazyb0
03/08/2017 6:41 pm
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Valued Member
Germany
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I guess that it is some kind of token. There was a village called Napolle in West Prussia and I'd rule out Naples because in Italian its Napoli.
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Thank you for your both replies. Now I know this is not a coin but a prussian token. But I still don't know what kind of token it is and if is valuble.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Notgeld from Napolle, West Prussia, as Potsdam stated, struck in zinc/iron, and well rusted. Mze.=Munze. Probably dates late 1910s-early 1920s. Napolle was a tiny, tiny place in Kreis Kulm (Rbz. Marienwerder) - after 1945 the former site would have now been part of Chelmno in Poland.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
03/15/2017 10:57 pm
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Paralyse, thank you so much for your reply, now I know more about this Notgeld.
What it is surprising about this is that I found this notgeld 20 kilometres away from Chelmno because I used to live in Poland 5 years ago.
Is this is Notgeld valuable?
Edited by bitcoin20
03/16/2017 2:39 pm
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Valued Member
Germany
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Well I do not have any catalogue on tokens from that time. The problem for these issues like this one is that the demand is actually not very high. However, people whose ancestors have lived around that area and who'd collect stuff from there might pay a nice price. I can imagine that this token is quite scarce and could fetch anything between 20 and 60 Euros.
If I was you I'd keep it though. It obviously very well relates to your home back in Poland :)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Considering that as of 1920 there were less than 500 residents in Napolle it should tell you how dire the Weimar situation was that there was a necessity for such a tiny village to need its own currency. I cannot imagine many survived unless passed down but most of the inhabitants who had not fled via tbe Napoleon Route or similar means were involuntarily "relocated" by the Red Army...
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Well, my grandmother was born in a tiny village in what today is Lithuania but used to be the German province Memelland or Memelgebiet until the end of WW2. That village had not even 400 residents and basically all of them fled and some died too (my grandmother's brother was an infant and died when they were fleeing in winter 44/45). However, if I'd find any type of token from that small village over there I'd probably pay much more than 60 Euros, just because because of sentimental value for a family members that basically left everything they had behind...
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03/16/2017 4:04 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Same for me with stuff from Blaichach (Oberallgau.) My grandmother was born there and had to flee. She met my grandfather who met her living in the streets and they got married later after the war. My dad grew up around there and near Berchtesgaden for first 10 years but learned Hochdeutsch and even he had trouble with Oma's Swabisch. I never learned much German but my dream is to visit someday in honor of their memories.
The only thing she had left of her parents was a single gold locket, when they met in 1945.
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Thank you for your help in identifying this token. I really appreciate it.
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