{"id":164,"date":"2010-05-03T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:53:14","slug":"r-o-blechman-reveals-the-lowdown-on-notrgeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/r-o-blechman-reveals-the-lowdown-on-notrgeld\/","title":{"rendered":"R.O. Blechman Reveals The Lowdown On Notgeld."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany during the early 1920s rampant inflation wreaked havoc on the economy (an American dollar\u00e2\u20ac\u201dworth 330 marks in 1921\u00e2\u20ac\u201dskyrocketed in 1923 to 4,200,000,000,000 marks&#8230; at its zenith, an American dollar was worth 99,000,000,000,000). In an attempt to replace or supplement the increasingly valueless German currency, cities took to printing their own money\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnotgeld, or emergency money (literally \u00e2\u20ac\u0153necessity money\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). Notgeld was usually printed as paper banknotes and was usable only in the municipality where it was issued. Read R.O. Blechman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiga.org\/content.cfm\/order-disorder-and-notgeld\">Order, Disorder and Notgeld<\/a><\/em> on the AIGA blog and have have a look at some of his collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiga.org\/content.cfm\/order-disorder-and-notgeld\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163 alignnone\" title=\"R.O.B_Itzehoe_scatalogical\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/R.O.B_Itzehoe_scatalogical.jpg\" alt=\"R.O.B_Itzehoe_scatalogical\" width=\"550\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/R.O.B_Itzehoe_scatalogical.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/R.O.B_Itzehoe_scatalogical-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A scatological illustration on notgeld from the town of Itzehoe in Holstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany during the early 1920s rampant inflation wreaked havoc on the economy (an American dollar\u00e2\u20ac\u201dworth 330 marks in 1921\u00e2\u20ac\u201dskyrocketed in 1923 to 4,200,000,000,000 marks&#8230; at its zenith, an American dollar was worth 99,000,000,000,000). In an attempt to replace or supplement the increasingly valueless German currency, cities took to printing their own money\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnotgeld, or emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8,1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifacts","category-artists","category-reactor","category-uncategorized","tag-r-o-blechman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R.O. 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