Some Austrian Stamps And A Nice Bonus For A Friend

This morning I went to a local flea market. One man there sold stamps from an album. These albums are known in the Netherlands as 10 cent albums. You probably know what I mean.

Before I started looking, he also said that the last page was 50 cents each. I resisted looking at the last page first and started looking for stamps I collect. Unfortunately not much to be found although I did find a couple of Austrian stamps with Vienna, Brunn(Brno) and Praha(Prague) cancels.

Ok, looking at the last page with 50 cent items. You never know.

In front of me I saw 4 items that looked familiar, but I was unsure, French Assignats? If they were, 50 cent each was cheap, so I bought them.

They turned out to be "banknotes" issued in Mainz during the occupation of 1793. As far as I could google pretty rare and valuable.

What will I do with them? I will sell them, I have a friend. She has Lyme disease and as a result of that she is in a wheelchair. Medical costs are always high. So a bit of good fortune for me turns into a bit of good fortune for her.

You can find them in the 'Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Specialized Issues' by George S. Cuhaj, page 637, Germany.
... and here:

https://citizenwald.tumblr.com/post...f-mainz-1793

Great find.....
http://assignats.e-monsite.com/pages/page-10.html

Looks like they have been glued in some old album/ scrapbook... 2 are still stuck on the papers (cut-out now)...

initially the the first one (upper left) was removed successfully, but "the remover" failed on very the next one... down right... and made some damage - a hole.

So, he gave up after that, and left the last 2 stuck on the papers to preserve them from extra damage.

I would like to thank aug-stamps and perf12 for the links provided.

You are right filipo, and I am so glad that he gave up on the last 2.