Notgeld of the Week 10 (9/16/2025)!
A special haul for the tenth week of the series, with some more interesting notes!
A bright yellow 75 pf. from Freiberg, celebrating, quite morbidly, the mining industry there. The reverse pictures a funeral precession titled "the last shift".
Some tiny and colourful fractionals, also from Freiberg.
Another little fractional from Winsen. This one uses the moniker of "Notgroschen", Groschen had a few diferent meanings in the Germanosphere; it was a historical Austrian denomination, a 10 Pfennig coin, or just an equivalent name for a coin (i.e. penny, denar etc.) It can also refer to a nest egg, but you would have to save a ton of these little guys in order to buy anything substantial.
Another neat yellow note from Merseburg. The raven holding a ring refers to a town legend: wherein Bishop Thilo von Trotha (on the reverse) once lost a golden ring. He suspected his servant of stealing the ring and ordered him to be executed, but the ring was never found. Years later, the ring was found in a Raven nest in on the roof of the Merseburg cathedral. Thilo, regretting his hasty decision, made the symbol of a raven holding a golden ring into his family crest.
This note, from Aschersleben, has an interesting overprint. They must have changed what bank you could cash this in at, as "Stadhauptkasse" (city treasury, roughly) is crossed out and replaced for "Sparkasse" (local public bank).
And finally, a first in my collection, a punched out note!
This note comes from the mountain town of Lorch am Rhein. The reverse pokes fun at the French for "causing" the 1920 avalance that destroyed Nollig castle.
The punch reads "Unglitig", meaning invalid, and was likely added by an independent entity, as the exact same punch appears on several other cities' notgeld.
(Hard to see, but its there)
