The Notgeld for this week is quite interesting. The firsy set is a single note from Tostedt. This note is intersting for the reason that it does not have a specific value. It does have the number "50" designated on it. However, I cannot find anything indicating whether it is Pfennigs or Marks. The reverse is also interesting. It depicts a train on th bottom portion and in the upper corners are signs which say "Bremen" and "Hamburg". Tostedt is between these towns and must have had a railway which connected the two. Tostedt is near Hamburg.
The next set is also quite different from others that I have shown. The set below are 75, 50, and 25 Pfennig denominations. One aspect of these notes is that I cannot determine which municipal authority issued them. On the top bar of the obverse of each note are the words "Ersatz wert zeichen", I think. This leads me to think that these were replacement notes of some sort. I looked a little closer and noticed that under the sailing vessel on the obverse of each note the wording below the vessel have been printed over with the words "So knapp das brot seefahrt ist not". I know that it is about bread being in tight supply or something close to that. Could it be that these notes were the really a commentary on the current times and the advent of hyperinflation??
The next set is also quite different from others that I have shown. The set below are 75, 50, and 25 Pfennig denominations. One aspect of these notes is that I cannot determine which municipal authority issued them. On the top bar of the obverse of each note are the words "Ersatz wert zeichen", I think. This leads me to think that these were replacement notes of some sort. I looked a little closer and noticed that under the sailing vessel on the obverse of each note the wording below the vessel have been printed over with the words "So knapp das brot seefahrt ist not". I know that it is about bread being in tight supply or something close to that. Could it be that these notes were the really a commentary on the current times and the advent of hyperinflation??
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