"Earthy" Notgeld Quartet

I can see how it easily could come to that, but I'm trying to be very selective and buy only those that really stand out to me, and eschew the run of the mill types. Even under that constraint, I wouldn't be surprised if someday I have many hundreds of them, and I can't imagine anyone could ever have them all.




Since you bring it up, here's an exemplar of that from the group I just acquired.

As you note, the overall quantity of such extant, even after almost a century has elapsed, appears to remain enormous, even on this side of the Atlantic. That's amazing, really - consider how much that had been stashed away must've been destroyed by bombings and ground combat in Germany during the Second World War. I'd also comment that crisp, uncircualted specimens are hardly exceptional. That's partly a function of their limited use as "emergency money" but also can be attributed to the paper quality being generally not terrible, very little in the way of foolscap, newsprint, or the like. My last remark would be that the printing, both in terms of the plate art and multiplicity of colors, ia also generally rather better than you might expect. So especially when there's contextual content, and given the incredible diversity, collecting relatively inexpensive notgeld becomes an extremely appealing proposition.