Germany and Austria, 1918-1923: lot of 49 emergency notes (Notgeld) from the inflation and hyperinflation,...

Lot of 49 emergency notes (NOTGELD) of towns, districts, banks, the railway and companies in Germany, and two from Austria, 1918-1923, from 20 mark up to 100 billion mark (HUNDERT MILLIARDEN MARK). Among them:

(1) City of Cologne, 500 million mark, 20 September 1923, with the cathedral, signed by the Lord Mayor (DER OBERBÜRGERMEISTER) Konrad Adenauer, later the first Chancellor of West Germany;

(2) 2 notes of 100 billion mark, 1923: the Osnabrück Chamber of Commerce and the Passau town council;

(3) a colourful series of 9 Dortmund notes, 10 October 1922: 5 of 50 mark and 4 of 25 mark;

(4) 7 notes of the district of Stollberg in the Ore Mountains (STOLLBERG I. E.), 1923, from 100,000 to 100 million mark;

(5) 5 notes of the Kreisgemeinde Pfalz and 2 of Pirmasens, 1923, up to 5 billion mark;

(6) Kiel, 5 million mark, with the portrait of the poet Klaus Groth; Kaiserslautern, 50 million mark, with the city seal; Berlin, 1,000 mark 1922 with the overprint 'three million' (DREI MILLIONEN); Brandenburg, 20 mark 1918;

(7) the Württembergische Notenbank, the Reichsbahn directorate of Halle, and cheques of Oberstdorf (1 billion mark) and Maximilianshütte (500 million mark);

(8) Essen (2), Witten, Ohligs, Solingen, Pirna, Sonneberg, Aachen, Liebenwerda, Meuselwitz, Sorau and Landsberg an der Warthe;

(9) Austria, 1918: Vienna, 100 Kronen, and Traisen, 20 Kronen.

Used notes: folds, stains and wear; tears and missing corners on some.

Condition: VG-XF.

Units in lot: 49

Number of units In lot: 49

Condition Report:
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