Kiloware
As a kilo goods , Austro Skart , unsorted is goods referred to, which is offered on weight and sold. The term is widespread in philately , but also in the coin trade , for fabrics, steel and iron goods as well as in internet trade for used plastic toys.
Use of the term in philately
In philately, kilo goods mostly include postage stamps that are still stuck to the paper of the envelopes or forms they were used to frank. So-called “missionary goods”, that is, kilo goods that have been collected by charitable institutions, are popular. In Germany, the sale of kilo goods by the Deutsche Bundespost was stopped as early as the 1950s .
In order for the chances of an interesting find to be high, one should be the first stamp collector to search through the goods. Therefore, kiloware is often offered - more or less credibly - as "unsearched".
So-called “paper-free kiloware goods” consist of stamps that have already been washed off the paper on which they were originally stuck. Most of these are remnants of collectors' estates, so that the newest brands are rarely found in them.
Use in numismatics
In the coin trade, kilowares include those pieces that are made of base metals (no gold and silver ), are more recent (especially after 1950, sometimes also from 1900) and generally have no or only a very low remaining monetary value . These include, for example , foreign coins withdrawn from circulation , such as leftovers from vacation or no longer exchangeable euro forerunner currencies such as coins from France , Italy or the Netherlands .
Due to their frequency and the fact that they are no longer a means of payment, these coins have only a low value, with the prices for lots being between 5 and 10 euros per kilogram, and around 50 cents per piece when sold individually. Depending on the metal prices, the material value also plays a role at times , for example with pure nickel coins (the all-time high nickel price was in 2007 and was over 35 euros per kilogram) or coins made of pure copper or bronze .
Even with silver coins one can speak of kiloware, as there are also very common coins in this area that are traded as large items and only at the material value. From Germany, these typically include the 1/2 and 1 mark coins from the German Empire (1873 to 1918), the 2 and 5 Reichsmark coins from the time of National Socialism (minted from 1934 to 1939) and the silver 5- DM course and commemorative coins (1951 to 1974/1980). The coins from the German Empire and the Nazi era were hoarded by the population as protection against inflation during the world wars , as they had a high silver content (90%) and the currency deterioration was already apparent during wartime, followed by high inflation. Accordingly, they still appear frequently from hoardings of that time. Common foreign silver coins that are traded in large quantities at their material value include the Canadian commemorative coins from the period between 1950 and 1990 and the Austrian 25, 50 and 100 schilling commemorative coins from the period between 1955 and 1979.
The term is not so common for banknotes , but is used occasionally, especially for notes from the German inflation of 1914 to 1923 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boris Paraschkewow: Words and names of the same origin and structure: Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-017469-4 , p. 326. The book on GoogleBooks .
- ↑ Kiloware in Duden.
- ↑ Stoff-e.de: scraps of fabric by the meter! Fabrics - leftovers, remnants as kilo goods! ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1956, p. 1654 [1]
- ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1959, p. 228 [2]
