Monday, May 25, 2020

Inflating your collection : 1 German Empire (Weimar Republic) i

August 1923, a fifth set of notes are issued.
The inflation seems unstoppable, and the notes that were issued in July seem already worthless in August.
workers are getting paid in cash ...
This 5th set starts with a 50,000 and 200,000 RM note in the same style as the 100,000 of set 4.
German Empire, Pick 100
There is no watermark, no serial number.
Two new million Reichsmark notes are emitted too.
The first (Pick 101) comes with a green shade on the right side, and has a serial letter/number at the bottom. The second one (Pick 102) has no shade, but a printed design, and no serial letter or number.
This note is printed on 4 different watermarks : E, L, G and J:
German Empire - Pick 102b (WM L)
Same story with Pick 103 and 104 (2 million Reichsmark). The first note (Pick 103) with a purple shade on the right, with serial letter/number at the bottom.
Pick 104 without the shade, without serial letter/number, and 4 different watermarks (E, L, G or J).
top: Pick 103 - bottom : Pick 104
The 5 million RM note is printed on pink paper, in the same style as the previous notes.
Pick mentiones a serial number/letter followed by a serial number on the right top corner.
catalogue picture Pick 105 German Empire
My notes are different however :
Here we find serial letter/number on the left top corner, and a serial number on the right top corner.
More to this note, is that in the top version, both serial letter/number left as right are red, while in the second note, left is black, and right is red...
Both of my notes come on watermark D.
to be continued ...

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