I found over $2000 in German Marks

[RustyGold]

I found over $2000 in German Marks! I know condition is everything but I still think these are awesome.

 

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[RustyGold]

Excuse me.. Marks not Dollars.

 

[uglymailman]

Too bad you're 100 yrs. early with those. I think they come from a time it took a wheelbarrow full of them to buy a loaf of bread. They may have some value yet. Good luck.

 

[RustyGold]

Too bad you're 100 yrs. early with those. I think they come from a time it took a wheelbarrow full of them to buy a loaf of bread. They may have some value yet. Good luck.

Thanks! Only value to me is the history. Best of luck!

 

[huntsman53]

My former brother-in-law, Andreas (God rest his soul) in Germany had large albums full of 10,000... 100,000... 500,000 and 1,000,000 Mark (Notgeld) Notes and others as well as thousands of stamps, many of which were in Mint condition. He found them in the 1970's in the Giessen Library which was formerly a large Office building and the only building left standing in Giessen at the end of WWII. Giessen was a major Luftwaffe Center and the Allies bombed Giessen out of existence except for that one building which was pretty badly damaged. After the war, they gather every book they could find and created a library in the building. All of the excess books were taken down to the basement (keller) to be stored and no one had looked in any of the books and even some inside the library had not been looked through or read since the war. Andreas had checked out a few books and after finding some Notgeld Notes, stamps and even letters, he looked through every book he could inside the library and when done, he asked if they had more books. They told him that there were thousands in the keller and that he could look through any he wanted, so he did so and put together an enormous collection of Norgeld Notes and stamps. Many of the stamps were rare and his' stamp collection was worth close to one million dollars when he last let me look through it. He died around 2005 and I never found out what happened to his' collections.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very interesting find...thank you for sharing!

 

[xcopperstax]

My former brother-in-law, Andreas (God rest his soul) in Germany had large albums full of 10,000... 100,000... 500,000 and 1,000,000 Mark (Notgeld) Notes and others as well as thousands of stamps, many of which were in Mint condition. He found them in the 1970's in the Giessen Library which was formerly a large Office building and the only building left standing in Giessen at the end of WWII. Giessen was a major Luftwaffe Center and the Allies bombed Giessen out of existence except for that one building which was pretty badly damaged. After the war, they gather every book they could find and created a library in the building. All of the excess books were taken down to the basement (keller) to be stored and no one had looked in any of the books and even some inside the library had not been looked through or read since the war. Andreas had checked out a few books and after finding some Notgeld Notes, stamps and even letters, he looked through every book he could inside the library and when done, he asked if they had more books. They told him that there were thousands in the keller and that he could look through any he wanted, so he did so and put together an enormous collection of Norgeld Notes and stamps. Many of the stamps were rare and his' stamp collection was worth close to one million dollars when he last let me look through it. He died around 2005 and I never found out what happened to his' collections.

fascinating story! Thanks.

 

[OreElse]

Quite a piece of history there!

 

[Jacza]

It's a bond of the town Leipzig and government bonds. Maybe you can get your money back (in whatever currency )