A big Hello from me! I call myself the notgeldman from England. I am teaching myself HTML coding with JavaScript and this is my first attempt at writing a web page from scratch! I have been collecting German notgeld (pronounced 'note gelt') for over 35 years.
I became interested in them when I was a young boy,
aged about 10. I collect all types of German notgeld, except for
inflationary issues. (I do not collect Austrian notgeld, but click here to see my new Austrian notgeld collectors website!)
I have over 13,000 different notgeld pieces in my collection!
The rarest note I have is probably the 1.5goldmark leather note issued
in Poessneck (in the former East Germany), known as 'toe and heel'.
They were issued during the high inflation as wertbestaendiges
notgeld. The value of the note lay in the value of the leather which
could really be used as toe or heel for repairing shoes! I hope this
page assists other notgeld collectors and attracts others to start
collecting them. Please email me with any comments or questions
regarding the topic. I am a private collector and not a banknote dealer
, although I always have serienscheine/verkehrsausgaben/inflationary
notes to swop or trade and currently ask for 1 euro per note,
equivalent of about 60p sterling, for any 'odds'.
(The going price here in England.....10 pieces for 6 pounds sterling).
Complete sets are slightly more, average of 4 euros for a set of 3
pieces. (1 euro more as you are buying a complete set, which is usually
what the collectors want). German notgeld prices have risen gradually
over the years and auction prices are very strong.
I live in Wistaston, in the county of Cheshire.
Why not start collecting German NOTGELD?? These notes are beautifully
detailed, very colourful and fairly readily available,
although they do now seem far harder to come by nowadays.
(They were issued over 80 years ago!) Scarcer sets quite often reach
prices far higher than their catalogue price. Why not start trying to
build up your German notgeld collection? Email me with any queries
you may have on the topic and I will endeavour to answer them all.
If you are a 'new' collector, why not join my G.N.C.C (German notgeld collectors club)?
I would love to get as many different countries represented, to show that the passion
for collecting these historical items is truly worldwide.
HAPPY NOTGELD COLLECTING!!
I am a kean mountain biker, although it does seem to get
more difficult the older I get! Other interests I have are home D.I.Y.
, home computing (including coding this website), judo, training my white
German shepherd dog (Samson) and travelling. I work in I.T. (information
technology) where I lead a small team of operation analysts.
I have visited France, Spain, (including Menorca & Ibiza), Germany,
Luxembourg, Greece (including Rhodes, Corfu and Crete), Italy,
The Netherlands, Belgium, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, The Bahamas, Jamaica,
the former Yugoslavia, The U.S.A., Albania, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, Tunisia and The Seychelles.