Word translation

• Abbildung - illustration
• aufdruck - overprint
• Ausgabe - issue or edition
• Ausstellung - exhibition or show
• bild - portrait
• borte - braid trimming / galloon.
1. 'mit borte umraendelt' - braided
2. 'mit spitze umraendelt' - laced
3. kurbelstickerei - machine embroidered/embroidery
• Buettenpapier - thick rough paper
• Druckfehler - printing error
• Druckfirma - printing firm
• Ersatzschein - substitute note (see Ersatzwertzeichen below - both terms are similar).
• Ersatzwertzeichen - replacement note (see Ersatzschein above - both terms are similar).
• Gemeinde - Community
• Grossgeld - notes of 1m or over in value
• Gutschein - voucher or credit note
• heller - 1/100 Krone, so note is Austrian and not German!
• kassenfrisch - 'cash register fresh' (uncirculated, like straight from an ATM machine)!
• Kleingeld - notes of less than 1m in value
• notgeld - emergency/necessity money
• Papier (Wasserliniertes) - paper with lines really close together
• pfennig - 1/100 Mark, so similar to English penny, although not same face value
• Rathaus - city or town hall
• Sparkasse - savings bank
• spitze - lace, one kind of 'borte'
• Stadt - city or town
• stoffgeld - money made of material (silk, linen, velvet, leather etc.)
• Ungultig - no longer valid, cancelled.
• Verein - club
• Wappen - coat of arms
• wasserzeichen - watermarked paper
• Weschselschein - change note

• ohne datum (o.d) - without date
• ohne Wz - without watermark
• ohne WZ - without a value (on the note). Could refer to the corners of a note, where the boxes either say for example '75pf' or are just plain boxes.
• ohne KN - without Konto Number (account/serial number)
• mit KN - with " "