German Notgeld “emergency money”
This is a collection of money printed in Germany during 1922 and 1923, after inflation destroyed the German economy. Every town printed their own and even some businesses, like the railroads, created their own monetary system. I found these in my Dad’s shop and thought they were beautiful. Especially the guy with a crutch taking a bath! The photos are about life size.
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Neat…
Comment by KR — January 10, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
If only we could rummage through your dads stuff.
Comment by Ute — January 11, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
He is also selling metal detectors, and is sending me his old one. The treasure hunt is (soon to be) on!
Comment by jon — January 14, 2007 @ 11:49 am
Those are really beautiful. Where’s your dad’s shop? I want to check it out.
Comment by Rachel — January 14, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
The New England Trading Post! On LaFayette Road, across from Hovey’s Camera shop. Sort of by the old button factory.
He’s in the old Cliff’s Shoe Store – you may remeber the great faded neon sign shaped like a boot ( recently taken down). The building sold and Dad is moving out in a few months.
He specializes in coins and tokens. Some stamps and paper money too. His favorite thing to collect is early American copper coins – Colonials, Half Cents, Large Cents, and Hard Time Tokens.
Cents and half cents were the first coins struck at the original mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (from 1793-1857) For the first twenty years or so we used british or spanish money in our economy.
Comment by jon — January 14, 2007 @ 1:24 pm