Lembeck notgeld coins collection online

Administrative region of Lembeck

(now part of this territory is a suburb of Dorsten and part is part of the Borken district of North Rhine-Westphalia)

Denomination: 5 pfennigs
Year indicated on the coin: 1919
Metal: iron
Diameter: Type of edge:
Mutual position of obverse and reverse: medal (0°)
Signs on the coin: none
Approximate price: from 3 to 10 euro
Additional information: Lembek administrative district ( in German, the status of this area was written Herrlichkeit) consisted of

Denomination: 10 pfennig
Year indicated on the coin: 1919
Metal: iron
Diameter: 21.0 mm.
Edge type:
Mutual position of obverse and reverse: medal (0°)
Signs on the coin: no
Approximate price: from 3
to 15 euro
made in 1890)

Denomination: 50 pfennigs
Year indicated on the coin: 1920
Metal: iron
Diameter: Type of edge: ribbed Relative position of obverse and reverse: medal (0°)
Signs on the coin: no
Approximate price: from 12 to 80 euro
Additional information: the oldest oak in Germany is depicted on the coin, whose age, according to some estimates, reaches more than a thousand years; this oak grows on the territory at that time of one of the communities of the Lembeck region, which was called Erle (Erle), now this territory is part of the municipality (community) Resfeld (Borken district of North Rhine-Westphalia); drawing of an oak from the beginning of the 20th century, now the oak looks like this; the translation of the inscription on the right scan is the thousand-year-old Vehm-oak in Erl (Vehm is the name of the oak, pronounced as Fem-oak, the name comes from the term - Themian Court (probably the defendants were hanged on this oak when the death sentence was passed by such a court)