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COMPLETE ARNSTADT NOTGELD SET (18 DIFF!) BACH PLAGUE ANTISEMITIC etc. .99 EA.!

$ 47.49

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Type: Notgeld
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Year: 1921
  • Condition: XF-CHOICE CU, Average AU-UNC
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculatd
  • Country: Germany
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany

    Description

    Envelope is NOT included (sorry it was Sold)
    THE FAMOUS NOTGELD SERIES of ARNSTADT GERMANY - COMPLETE!!
    18 DIFFERENT UNICRCULATED NOTES
    with a PANORAMA of HISTORY!!
    GUARANTEED ORIGINAL and AUTHENTIC, DATED 1921
    RETAIL VALUE 0 - BUY NOW FOR .95 (
    .99 EACH
    ) and
    SAVE 50%
    !!
    The Antisemitic Notes are selling for up to each!!
    ONLY FULL SET ON EBAY
    - LAST CHANCE!!!
    This is one of the most famous series of German currency, consisting of 18 (EIGHTEEN!) Different Notgeld (small change) bills, and it is seldom if ever available complete, let alone in Uncirculated condition!!
    The series consists of 6 small 10 Pfennig notes with red backs, 6 large 25 Pfennig notes with green backs, and 6 large 50 Pfennig notes with blue backs. A wide variety of historical themes and stories (many having to do with postwar hard times) are portrayed in superb images - the large notes have up to 3 images each! Here is a summary of the subjects on each note:
    10 PFENNIG -
    NOTES 1-5 AVAILABLE FOR ONLY $
    9.99
    POSTPAID
    - PLEASE EMAIL!
    Woman holds hen laying an egg into vagabond's pouch. Poem laments that eggs are now laid in others' nests, not our own.
    Woman cries at vendor: "Are you of the devil? What used to cost pennies now costs 3 Marks!"
    Man before/after: "I used to round my belly but 200 pounds have disappeared, all that's left is air in a pipe!" (the cited poems all rhyme in German!)
    German Eagle eating worthless paper money lays an egg into a famished man's hand but, as per poem, but his hopes that it will be "worth it" (i.e. be edible or have any nutrition) will soon be dashed.
    Man, all skin and bones, cuts yet another piece off of his tie, as woman cries "Please Mr. Bureaucrat, make it double the quantity. I have the hunger of a lion and the belly of a cow. Then you can chew again and stay calm."
    ANTISEMITIC!!!
    This note is worth by itself
    !!
    2 rotund Jewish Fat Cats are living the high life. The poem laments: "You know this breed, old chum, connivers (scammers) and pushers. In the old days they were lifted to the gallows, but nowadays they just push (scam) on, undisturbed." This is an example of how Germany's economic and social malaise were being blamed on the Jews.
    25 PFENNIG
    Bust of E. Marlitt pen name of popular female novelist Eugenie John (1825-1887)
    Bust of Willibad Alexis, German novelist. All noted figures lived in Arnstadt.
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    and the pipes of the organ he played in Arnstadt.
    The Schwarzburger Inn
    St. Bonifacius Church and Fountain
    Magnificent old City Hall Building
    50 PFENNIG
    "In the year 1635 The Black Plague takes 1236 townspeople". Dancing Skeleton fiddles as a man is consumed by the Plague; bats fly over the city.
    RARE!!
    Plundering of Arnstadt in 1640 by the hordes of the Swedish General Banner
    Wine Harvest Festival on St. Urban's Day
    Vain Siege of the Erfurters against Arnstadt (failed 1342 Invasion)
    The Reichstag (Imperial Congress) of Otto the Great in Arnstadt, 946 A.D.
    The Great Fire of 1581 caused by the Mayor Nebel, turning Arnstadt into "Armstadt" (poor town). Nebel inadvertently started the fire while repairing his roof.
    There you have it - 18 different century old banknotes celebrating the life and times of Arnstadt, the oldest city in Thuringia, and one of the loveliest in Germany. All notes are Uncirculated or close to it their only imperfection being an occasional trace of edge wear.
    UNBEATABLE VALUE
    at .99 per note.
    LIMITED TIME OFFER! Almost out of full sets forever!