German 50,000 Mark Uncut Sheet

Dsmalouf,
Post it over here on the foreign section. It look like you have a foreign bond (German may be) with "interest coupons" still intact and "not cancelled" out in any way. I have no clue but may be someone on the foreign side will be able to help you out.

IF this turns out to be valuable - ONLY sell one at a time and do not flood the market.

Post with a header of "UN cancelled Bond with Coupons" something like that.

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...p?FORUM_ID=9

Best of luck with it and I will watch to see what you have.

It's some kind of interest-bearing loan certificate. "Anheile" means "Loan". "Erneuerungschein für die Zinsscheine Reihe II" on the bottom-most certificate translates to "Renewal form for the coupons Series II" which were supposed to become available once this loan matured in 1932. "Reichsschuldenverwaltung" translates to "State Debt Office", which implies it was intended as a loan to help repay Germany's war debt from WWI.

The original loan certificate, which would presumably have looked something like this, would have accompanied it and had a face value of 50,000 marks; the sections were intended to be detached and used to collect interest payments: 1000 marks a year for 10 years from 1922 to 1931.

It's not surprising that none of the interest certificates were redeemed. Germany was hit with severe hyperinflation later that year; 1000 marks and even 50,000 marks quickly became worthless. I'm afraid the person who originally bought this bond threw their money away when they loaned it to their government.