Bidspirit auction | Germany and Austria, 1918-1923: lot

Germany and Austria, 1918-1923: lot of 49 emergency notes (Notgeld) from the inflation and hyperinflation, up to 100 billion mark, including a City of Cologne note signed by Mayor Konrad Adenauer, VG-XF - Lot of 49 emergency notes (NOTGELD) of towns, districts, banks, the railway and companies in Germany, and two from Austria, 1918-1923, from 20 mark up to 100 billion mark (HUNDERT MILLIARDEN MARK). Among them: (1) City of Cologne, 500 million mark, 20 September 1923, with the cathedral, signed by the Lord Mayor (DER OBERBÜRGERMEISTER) Konrad Adenauer, later the first Chancellor of West Germany; (2) 2 notes of 100 billion mark, 1923: the Osnabrück Chamber of Commerce and the Passau town council; (3) a colourful series of 9 Dortmund notes, 10 October 1922: 5 of 50 mark and 4 of 25 mark; (4) 7 notes of the district of Stollberg in the Ore Mountains (STOLLBERG I. E.), 1923, from 100,000 to 100 million mark; (5) 5 notes of the Kreisgemeinde Pfalz and 2 of Pirmasens, 1923, up to 5 billion mark; (6) Kiel, 5 million mark, with the portrait of the poet Klaus Groth; Kaiserslautern, 50 million mark, with the city seal; Berlin, 1,000 mark 1922 with the overprint 'three million' (DREI MILLIONEN); Brandenburg, 20 mark 1918; (7) the Württembergische Notenbank, the Reichsbahn directorate of Halle, and cheques of Oberstdorf (1 billion mark) and Maximilianshütte (500 million mark); (8) Essen (2), Witten, Ohligs, Solingen, Pirna, Sonneberg, Aachen, Liebenwerda, Meuselwitz, Sorau and Landsberg an der Warthe; (9) Austria, 1918: Vienna, 100 Kronen, and Traisen, 20 Kronen. Used notes: folds, stains and wear; tears and missing corners on some. Condition: VG-XF. Units in lot: 49