Wertbestaendige notgeld are all dated at the end of 1923 and it appears that about 700 places issued them. Those with money values (about 85% of the issues) are either in US dollars and/or Goldmarks or Goldpfennigs. The note above is for a value of 6 goldmarks and was issued by 'Hamburgische Frauenhilfe'. It is catalogued as LSK148, using the new 2002 Hamburg paper money issues catalogue, by Lindman, Stolzenberg & Kirstein.

The following scan shows a scarce wertbestaendige piece of notgeld issued in Luebben with an unusually high face value of 21 goldmarks. it catalogues as L037 in Kai Lindman's new 'Das wertbestaendige Notgeld von 1923/24' catalogue, published in 2008. It has a catalogue value of 200 euros in used condition!

The notes illustrated below are made of velvet and leather and were issued in Bielefeld and Osterwieck. The leather notes, for 1 Goldmark were issued on different coloured leather. I have green, white, brown and red. All have similar fronts and backs as depicted by the 2 notes shown. I have been told that these Osterwieck notes are 'Spenden- und Erinnerungsscheine'! That is, they are commemerative issues.

The idea behind linking the German currency to the Dollar was that it would hopefully make it more stable and help the German money to maintain a constant value.

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