Old bills.

Any idea of the value?

 

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1. Try cointalk with a full size image of each bill, front and back.
2. ... what Komo said.

 

The history of the financial collapse of much of Europe after WWI is very interesting, quite hard to understand 100 years later, but these notes, unofficial issues by local towns and communes to provide small change, are a concrete link to the events of that period. They have little value now because huge numbers and many varieties were printed and used.

The events of the period led to the post WWII Marshall Plan, whereby the USA funded the reconstruction of European economies after victory, which led to a far quicker and more stable recovery than had followed the First World War.

In these scruffy little notes lie the seeds of WWII, one of the great things about banknote collecting is that because exchangeable money is so vital to life, almost everything, however humble, has a very real and understandable presence in the actual events of the time of issue.

Through items such as these, genuine items of modest value, it is possible to build real links with 200 years of history. In my opinion, a banknote collection, far more than other artifacts, has very strong and deep links with the past, and I do not see these humble notes as just more old stuff, but a real reminder of the world's history in a cheap and accessible form.

Pardon my running on a bit, but my banknote collection is one of my most evocative, somewhat of my past, but mostly of the pasts of millions of others now forgotten.

 

Who knew you were so sentimental !

 

Postage stamps can do a similar job, but they're not as tactile. Those little itty bits of paper tell stories.

 

I also have a stamp collection. As a boy it taught me about ten different names for shades of red, and that Carmine and Vermillion were not an Italian deli.

 

Not relegated to only the past. Still happening around the world where ever they decide government knows best.

 

Thanks for the detailed answers. I really really appreciate it.

 

And that bill will buy a loaf of bread.

 

It makes a nice bookmark.

 

it was just thought to be on the lines of af - historically interesting.
that basket of currencies doesn't look very promissing either.

 

"on the lines of af - historically interesting"

Now I'm an ancient monument.

Sometimes I feel a bit that way..................


Sorry, fid, I know what you really meant.

 

no sorry needed, I like it when you misunderstand me.
and - yes, you are an ancient monument.