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Currently Loving: Nate’s Reichsbanknote Collection
On 02, Dec 2008 | No Comments | In Inspiration, Typography | By Lorraine
Whew! What an amazing vacation! I had some time to finish nearly all of my personal projects in progress–some of which I’ll be blogging about soon–as well as time for family fun and a stint at jury duty (not all that fun to tell you the truth…). But now I’m back and back to posting!
I was checking our AIGA chapter’s Flickr stats recently and noticed an awesome set on a fellow board member’s Flickr page. Nate’s uploaded an awesome collection of Reichsbanknote that he bought at the Berliner Trödelmarkt the last time he was in Berlin. (of which I’m totally jealous of…)
You may remember the link to Steven Heller’s post on Germany’s Notgeld that I posted back in a September edition of Wednesday’s Weekly Reader. The colorful, and often wonderfully designed, bills were issued locally by cities during the deep depression that hit Germany between the two World Wars in order to combat the rising inflation.
Anyways, enjoy the collection and a huge thanks to Nate for sharing it!
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Um, cool! I didn’t know about this interesting piece of German history.
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I have some very old Reichsbanknotes I would like to sell. Following is the list.
1000 date April 1910 Very good
100 date April 1910 poor
50 date April 1910 fair
100 date April 1903 good
5 date Oct. 1904 very good
10 date Oct. 1906 fair
20 date Jan. 1929 poor
20 date feb. 1914 fair -
I just started helping Iliazd tag his huge (3,600!) collection of scanned Notgeld. I’m helping tag color, city, and dominant images… It kinda feels like a nerdy thing to do–I don’t even know this guy and I’m not getting anything out of it–but it’s so fun. Such a great excuse to look through all of those.
I can’t remember exactly how I found the link to his collection. I must have searched it after reading your posts, so thanks for introducing me to this!-
Sweet! I’ll have to check out his collection now too… I wish I had known about these while I was over there…would be fun to go Notgeld hunting in the flea markets.
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Maybe I can do some of that while we’re in Berlin!
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Ooo! That would be cool!
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