notgeld

plural notgelds

1. uncountableusuallyhobbiesMoney issued by an institution in a time of economic or political crisis, usually without official sanction from the central government.

   I am starting to put some scans of stuff from my notgeld up on: […]

   1997 August 25, Nuwc, “view some notgeld”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet)

   3 more examples

   The catalog set I saw was pretty impressive (in size anyway). There were literally thousands of pieces of notgeld listed in three volumes!

   1993 December 1, barth.richards, “Anyone interested in Royal Doulton”, in rec.collecting (Usenet)

   This is a piece of Austrian notgeld (Heller is 100th Krone) issued by the chamber of commerce(equivalent) of the town of Mattighofen and was due to be redeemed for coin before 1 jan^([sic]) 1921.

   1998 February 20, Ernest Bramah, “Please Help ID German Note”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet)

   The most complete collection of notgeld online comes courtesy of Brooklynite Miguel Oks, whose German ancestors began archiving the bills in the 1930s—thousands of which you can see on his Flickr.

   2013 September 24, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, “The Intricate Makeshift Money Germans Relied On Between World Wars”, in Gizmodo, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2013

2. countablerareusuallyhobbiesA piece of notgeld.

   But I did hear from the seller of the defecating donkey notgelds, so hopefully I should get those soon:)

   2007 April 9, Sibirskmoneta, “An interesting week with banknote dealers :(”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet)

   2 more examples

   I am interested also in any information about Specimens,^([sic]) Trial proofs, etc, and any error note of the above, as well as any unlisted notes, including emergency issues and notgelds.

   1998 February 17, Marc Beoutis, “New Caledonia, New Hebrides & Tahiti”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet)

   There are still wide gulfs between them: the notgelds were issued by local authorities.Notgelds therefore were "official tokens" and had the force of legitimate money.

   2011 October 24, Watcher, “2011 Lundy Puffins”, in uk.rec.collecting.coins (Usenet)