Serienscheine: das schöne Notgeld

Detmold

Nur in Rom war man nicht heiter, sondern kaufte Trauerkleider, grade als beim Mittagsmahl Augustus sass im Kaisersaal
kam die Trauerbotschaft

Notgeld der Stadt Detmold
Die Kämmereikasse löst diesen Gutschein ein:
Er wird ungütig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung.

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But in Rome the wretched varmints
Went to purchase morning garments;
Just as they had tapped a puncheon,
And August sat at luncheon,
Came the mournful story. *

History | Scherenschnitt

*Translation by Charles Leland (1872) from
Gaudeamus!: Humorous Poems
By Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Folksong detailing the 9th Century BC Battle of the Teutoberg Forest in which the Roman general, Publius Quinctilius Varus, who suffered disastrous defeat by Germanic tribes, then took his own life.

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