Oct 29, 2025
Notgeld of the Week #16 (10/28/2025)!
A pair of high denomination Notgeld coins!
Top: 10,000 Marks from the province of Westphalen, made of Gold plated Tombac.
Bottom: 50 Million Marks also from the province of Westphalen, smaller and made of Aluminum.
The obverse has the portrait of Freiherr vom Stein a pioneer of German unification and helped to abolish serfdom in the 18th and 19th centuries. The reverse design is the famous Westphalian horse, the symbol of the region.
This design had quite a life being minted in various sizes and materials, even differing within the same denomination, and being issued from as little as 50 Pf in 1921, to 1 Trillion Marks by 1923.