Are these dog tax tags?

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Hi all.
I found these tags a few years back and have always believed that they were dog tax tags but recently someone said they were actually hiking stick badges.
If they were hiking stick badges wouldn't they have more than one hole for attaching them and why would one of them have a charge of 6 Marks?
Really hope someone can help.
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How much value would 6 Marks have in 1887, and would that value be appropriate for the purchase price of a dog tag?
I don't know the purchasing power of 6 Marks in 1887.

My guess is they ARE dog tags.
How cool would that be?!!! :)
 

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Hi.
Sadly I'm not sure what 6 Marks would be worth in 1887, I did try to Google it but with no luck.
This was one of my first thoughts, what could you purchase for 6 Marks back in 1887 and would 6 Marks be the right price for a dog tax?
Fingers crossed they are dog tax tags, it would be really cool.
 

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Hi Don.
Sorry I should of explained that all the tags were found in Germany.
I did a little research and the only name/company that I could find with KPDM was Königliche Polizei Direktion München. Translation reads, Royal police Department Munich.
 

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In the early 1900s the conversion rate was between 3 to 4 Marks per US dollar. That said 6 Mark's would be approximately $2.00 to $1.50. It seems the conversation rate stayed the same for some time.

So that seems like a lot of money for the time period, when a meal cost less than that in most places.
 

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Hi Mike.
I just found an article with the following statement.
. An 1899 Southborough, Mass., paper license fee was a whopping two dollars for one dog—a very high price for that era, and evidence of the value people placed on their pets.
So I guess it is possible that a license/tax for a dog back in 1866 could of cost 6 Deutsche marks.
 

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Quozzy said:
Hi Mike.
I just found an article with the following statement.
. An 1899 Southborough, Mass., paper license fee was a whopping two dollars for one dog—a very high price for that era, and evidence of the value people placed on their pets.
So I guess it is possible that a license/tax for a dog back in 1866 could of cost 6 Deutsche marks.
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Damn, hard to imagine that, thanks for the information.
 

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Nice finds you can also look up oddcoins on this site he is an expert on tags and has a very long thread on tags
 

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Hi Tommy. Thank you for the greetings and for informing me about the member oddcoins.
How do I go about searching a member? I placed him name in the search bar but it came up with like a million posts. Also how can I look at his thread that you mentioned? Can't you just tell I'm new here :)
 

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Yes, they are dog tax tags. They existed in different shapes! Also found 2 of them
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It's hard to describe what they were worth/how much money it actually costed.
Around 1900 a dockworker for example earned 61 Mark a month.
A suit was inbetween 10 and 75 Mark
1kg of meat (pig) was 1 Mark 50 Pfennig
Problem here is, that around 1830/1850 (?) the whole currency system changed. Apart from Mark and Pfennig we've had Gulden, Kreuzer, Groschen etc.
Around 1850 a regular rent was 20 Groschen and 20 Pfennig.
1837 1 Taler = 30 Groschen
1 Mark =14 Taler
Since Germany didn't exist until 1871 every kingdom had its own currency. There were small princedoms with maybe 70.000 inhabitants with their own currency. Must have been a mess back then
 

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Thank you so much for finally confirming it for me.
A great writeup. I actually now live in Germany although originally from the UK. I don't really know much about your old currency although I have found plenty of it. Do you know if these type of old tags are collectable?
 

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Quozzy said:
Thank you so much for finally confirming it for me.
A great writeup. I actually now live in Germany although originally from the UK. I don't really know much about your old currency although I have found plenty of it. Do you know if these type of old tags are collectable?
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What do you mean by collectable? I've seen some being sold online. There were single ones for 25€. I don't know though if there are collectors. I think they are nice finds and keep them in my showcase.
What coins did you find? And where in Germany do you live?
Our currency is complicated as hell since every kingdom or princedom, sometimes even cities had their own coins.
 

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I was really just wondering whether there were any FB groups for collectors of such tags. I've found between 30-40 and thought it might be something I'd like to collect. I would like to find out more information on them but there isn't really anything out there.
Regarding my coin finds, they are mostly silver Kruezers from the 17/18th centuries. I do also find a lot of Shield Boss buttons.
I'm from a small town just outside of Munich.
 

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Quozzy said:
I was really just wondering whether there were any FB groups for collectors of such tags. I've found between 30-40 and thought it might be something I'd like to collect. I would like to find out more information on them but there isn't really anything out there.
Regarding my coin finds, they are mostly silver Kruezers from the 17/18th centuries. I do also find a lot of Shield Boss buttons.
I'm from a small town just outside of Munich.
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I don't really know! Gotta look it up! 30-40?? Where the f*** do you go for metal detecting?? A pet graveyard?
Nice! I'm 2.5h away from Munich
 

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