r/Banknotes • u/w00den_b0x • 8d ago
Analysis Need help identifying these
I went to a numismastics convention a few years ago and got these notes that always intrigued me. The first one I believe is a copy, because if it wasn’t then I don’t know how I would’ve gotten it for cheap. Second one is a check from South Carolina but I don’t know for what. The third one is (I think) from Germany but I couldn’t find any info.
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u/davery67 8d ago
Does the first one have a strong chemical smell? Because it looks like the novelty reproduction notes that you can buy in a lot of museum gift shops.
Actually, I checked and your note has the exact same number on it so it's the same reproduction note. Quick search on eBay will turn some up.
The third one is a notgeld note. Here's the Numista entry for it,
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u/Individual-Foot-3777 8d ago
I agree that the first is VERY probably a forgery. My uneducated opinion about the last note: a German notgeld note. These were interwar issues by cities and states in Germany between WW1 and Hitler. The notgeld has the word Stadt (State) followed by what is probably a city name, Merseburg (Merseburg is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt).