Rainbow_stamps_and_coins

Another gold foil stamp came to my attention, right at the moment that a good friend of mine was in Luxemburg. In 1923 a statue was inaugura...

For the next 0-euro note, I take you to the south of Belgium. Along the Meuse (Maas) river  serveral cities have fortified sites overlooking...

When Belgium - and Europe - was at the dawn of war in 1914, a rush on metal cash and paper money was inevitable. National institutions alrea...

In the previous post on Belgian Emergency notes from Bruges, I mentionned 4 bodies were responsible for issuing emergency currency. 3 of th...

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A, B, C, when you sing you begin with do, r...

In order to have an idea of the value of some emergency notes, and of currency in 1914 in general, we need to know what the average costs of...

When talking about 'Notgeld' or 'Emergency Money', you might think that this is a typical phenomenon for Germany. When googl...

There is so much to say about Emergency Money - and in extention about replacement coupons - that a bit of a guidline might be useful. To ...

From the beginning of the first world war, a shortage of metals forced a lot of countries to redraw their coins out of circulation. Silver c...