Hello I am tudey and wondered if there is a place in this forum or otherwise on this site where I can ask questions on some of the old bank notes I have and possibly what they may be worth? I hope so as I do not know where to go to find out. I love history and I would like to find out the not only value but the history behind some of these foriegn notes.
thank you,
tudey

hi tudley,
sure, there is a forum on banknotes here, just leave your message there and someone will answer it. we have several collectors in that field. also try the other forums in the other languages too if you are multilingual. if not, leave your message on the volutary translations and the language you want it translated to. i'm sure you will be answered there as well. hope this helps and welcome to delcampe. enjoy.
a bientot,
cajunsr.

okay here goes. This is a German note 1923 and it says on it as follows well you know what I cannot read what it says so I am sure the picture will tell the story I hope. I do know it is a 100000 Mark note. That is all I know about this piece of money.
Thank you to anyone kind enough to give me any information.
tudey

This is was one of the very first banknotes in my own collection, because my old uncle had some. They were sold cheaply in the streets of London probably about a year after they were issued, when there were notes for a hundred billion marks, so a hundred thousand marks was nothing.

But 100 thousand was obviously a large number of marks, so they had great novelty value, and clearly tended to celebrate the downfall by inflation of a country still then not popular ! I would not be surprised if they were on sale in the USA in the same way.

The picture is of a merchant called Gisze, and is by Hans Holbein. It is a very common and attractive feature of German banknotes to use similar pictures by Holbein, Dürer and similar artists right up until their replacement by the euro. However, at the time of the inflation, many of the notes produced quickly had much simpler designs than this one, often only elaborate writing, so this would be a good choice for selling abroad. Holbein, of course, came to England and produced many famous portraits of Henry VIII and his family .

The wording is simple banknote stuff. Without changing the German word order :
Reich banknote. A hundred thousand marks pays the Reich bank high cash desk in Berlin against this banknote to the bearer. Berlin 1st February 1923 Reich bank secretariat.

The best place to find out about banknotes is the Standard Catalogue of World Paper Money, published by Krause of Iola WI (Wisconsin ?) . In England, you would find it in any town’s public library . The volume most useful to you would be volume 2 (1368 – 1960) . Volume 3 is 1960 to the present. Volume 1 is unlikely to be of interest to you (very specialised more or less unofficial or provincial issues).

Hope this helps.

Incidentally, the Standard Catalogue of World Paper Money is usually known mysteriously to collectors as Pick, and all the banknotes of each country have numbers: yours is Pick 83 .

Plantag