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Aachen F-1.13a 1920 50pf it's not a 1,0 mm thick planchet, it's 1.5 mm thick.
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Altena-Olpe (Westfalen) Handelskammer F-12.2 1918 50pf. No subtypes

Hey everyone! I'm u/stevesvoice, a collector with over Fifty Years experience collecting everything that’s German Coin issues from 1875 till The reunification of East and West Germany. I have also been collecting and studying the Emergency issues of World War One, often called NOTGELD MÜNZEN. With my experience as founding moderator of r/germannotgeldcoins.

This is our new home for all things related to the sharing & studying the emergency coinage issued during, and after World War One. The primary purpose of this page is the Promotion of CORRECT Notgeld information. We're excited to have you join us!
All are welcome to join and share information

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Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about [please post using the Walter FUNCK …F number system] when possible. And if you don’t have access to a catalog, not a problem…post anyway and I’ll help you identify the coin.
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1. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation

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1. Interested in helping out? We're always looking for new moderators, so feel free to reach out to me to apply.
2. German translations of terms found on coins, as well as terms, and descriptions necessary for verification of different types of the same issue, or subtypes.
3. Learning how to determine the condition, and grades of Notgeld Coins. Something that’s currently missing with only the two grades of Very Fine & Extra Fine provided in Standard Catalogs.
4. The eventual listing of all my over 2,500 different Notgeld listings of W.FUNCK in as high grade as possible. For aiding all collectors in the identification of German Notgeld Coins, and eventually establishing estimated values by grade.
5. Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/germannotgeldcoins amazing.

The Peace of Augsburg was an agreement signed in 1555 that ended religious conflict between Catholics and Lutherans throughout the Holy Roman Empire.

This established the principle of cuius regio, eius religio “whose realm, his religion”, allowing each prince to choose whether their territory would be Catholic or Lutheran without any external pressures.

This is a nice example of the small circulating commemorative coins issues across many different German states in the 1700s, will need to dip this in some acetone to get rid of PVC damage though.

I'm a sucker for Imperial Eagles. Saw this and had to pick it up.

Can you tell me, which type it is?

Bonn 52.4 1918 10 Pfennig has two distinct varieties, which do you have?
F-52.4a has the Bridge Abutment or heavy stones the bridge is built on are round masses.
F-52.4b the Bridge Abutment is depicted as two stones.
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Finally got a hold of a Lübeck 10 mark making my set of all the three Hansastadt 10 mark set complete.

Lübeck only issued 10 mark in gold, never a 20 mark. They issued them for six different years and mine is a 1901.

In this set is the only 10 mark from Bremen dated 1907. Bremen also has an 20 mark from 1906.

Hamburg is the easiest obtainable coin, issued in both 10 and 20 mark several years. Mine is a 1898.

Aachen 1.11Aa 1920 50 pf Notgeld, with a mintage of 623,725 coins struck in Iron, coin rim has 21 flattened areas. The key point necessary in identifying this variety of coin is found on the reverse side of coin in the word KRÄNTCHE, the upper stroke of the K is longer as shown on photo #3.
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ALZEY (Hessen) Stadt F-14.1b, 1917 10 Pfennig, zinc. Mintage of 30,000 coins Heinrich Arid, Nürnberg Germany.
The way of distinguishing between F-14.1a & b.
On the reverse side. Of coin the number 1 in the value of 10 is the key to determining which variety is which. a) The top slop of the 1 is nearer to the K.
b) The top slop of the 1 is nearer to the R.
* the K & R are beginning of KRIEGSMÜNZE
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Mühlhausen F-342.10i 50 Pfennig 1920 Iron coin. So how do we distinguish this variety?
Using a clear Multi-gauge segmented into millimeters, and placing in over the coin: 1st measure the Mühleisen ( Milling Shaft Object) from top to bottom, which provides the height (hoch) which should be 10.5 mm, 2nd with the gauge, measure the distance between the 5 - 0, which be 1.0 mm wide.
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Never seen anything like this. The eagle and head on each side are way out of alignment. Any authenticity issues here?

Bottom coin the S is squished compared to my other 3 mark on top. Is it a fake?

My first Prussian /deutches reich coin. Picked this up from my LCS , has a few scratches so was able to bargain down and I’m happy with the price. This 1913 coin represents the empire in full glory , a year before Europe burst into flames.

3 marchi 1914 Ludwig III

Taler Ludwig II Patrona Bavariae

Sembrano in buone condizioni, ma pulite.

Qualche informazione sul Madonnentaler? Dovrebbe avere l'anno sotto la luna, ma non riesco a vederlo.

Penso di aver fatto un ottimo affare, ed è anche il mio primo Madonnentaler. Grazie.

German New Guinea was a German colonial possession in the northeastern part of New Guinea and nearby Pacific islands from 1884 until Australian occupation during WWI in 1914.

The colony was initially administered by the German New Guinea Company, a chartered trading company that sought to profit from plantations and trade, but financial problems led the German government to take direct control in 1899.

This is probably my all time favourite German Empire design, really cant beat the incredible obverse.

Bought a few coins on auction but for some the picture had I guess less lighting? Where it was hard to tell if it was cleaned or had the old grit. I very much prefer 100 year old coins to look 100 years old, but a 5 and 3 mark are so shiny. I'm not feeling great about the shiny ones. What are your thoughts? Chapgpt says it's possible a shiny German Empire coin was either cleaned or not cleaned but lightly circulated. Any possibility of that here?

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