Please be aware that this book is not in any normal sense a "catalogue". You won't be able to look up your specific notes and find prices for them. It's intended to be a checklist of cities and towns that issued notgeld-like notes, along with an indication of what kinds of notgeld were issued for that city, and roughly how rare they are.
For instance, I will quote you the entire checklist entry for Belfort:
quote:
BELFORT (Territoire de Belfort) Haute-Rhin 1A 6A 7A
Looking up the table, we see the numbers indicate the known categories of notgeld for this town: "1" means "municipal paper" (ie. notes issued by the local council authorities in the town), "6" means "municipal metal" (metal tokens issued by the town) and "7" means "private metal" (tokens authorized by companies, businesses or individuals rather than the town government). The letter is the rarity scale for that category: "A" means most common, "up to $25".
So all it says is that the only notgeld types known for Belfort are city-issued paper notes and tokens, and private tokens, all of which are common and cheap. There's nothing about the actual designs, denominations, or different series which might have been issued there, or even whether or not there are any exceptions to the "cheap and common" rule.
For a more specific, detailed catalogue, you'd need a specialist book, which would probably only be available in French (assuming anyone has ever actually sat down and catalogued these notes).
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
Posted 04/17/2008 6:52 pm
