Editing Notgeld (section)

==={{lang|de|Notgeld}} in World War I===
[[File:Notgeld Burghausen 1918 50 Pfennig Vorderseite.jpg|thumb|{{lang|de|Notgeld}} 50 {{lang|de|[[pfennig]]}} banknote issued by the southern German city of [[Burghausen, Altötting|Burghausen]] in 1918]]
{{lang|de|Notgeld}} was released even before Germany entered [[World War I]]. On 31 July 1914 three notes were issued by the {{lang|de|Bürgerliches Brauhaus GmbH|italic=no}} of Bremen<ref>{{cite book |first=Courtney |last=Coffing |isbn=0-89005-438-X |title=Perspectives in Numismatics |publisher=Chicago Coin Club |year=1986 |url=https://archive.org/details/perspectivesinnu00need |url-access=registration }}</ref> (a brewery). This was due to hoarding of coins by the population in the days before war was declared. The first period of {{lang|de|Notgeld}} continued until the end of 1914, but mostly ceased once the German {{lang|de|[[Reichsbank]]|italic=no}} made up for the shortage with issues of small denomination paper notes and coins of cheaper metal.

As the war dragged on, acute monetary shortages could not be met by the German central bank, leading to a new period of {{lang|de|Notgeld}} beginning in 1916. Additionally, the non-precious metals used to mint lower value coins were needed to produce war supplies. Dr Keller arranged this period into two catalogs: {{lang|de|Kleingeldscheine}} for issues of less than 1 Mark face value and {{lang|de|Grossgeldscheine}} for values 1 Mark and higher. This period of issue came to a close in 1919.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eiland |first=Murray |date=2010 |title=Heraldry on German Notgeld |url=https://www.academia.edu/8125755 |journal=The Armiger's News |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=1–3, 12 |via=academia.edu}}</ref>