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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucky Cuss, post: 1859906, member: 44086&quot;][ATTACH=full]312417[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s an artifact from a sad chapter in monetary history, when the Weimar Republic tried to bridge the gap between its income and its spending by printing ever increasing amounts of currency, resulting in one of the most notorious instances of hyperinflation on record.&nbsp; This note, dated from February of 1923, is in the amount of 100,000 marks.&nbsp; At about that time, you could buy 10 loaves of bread with it.&nbsp; Just the year before, you could&#039;ve bought over 30,000 loaves with such a note (if that denomination then existed). By November of 1923, you would&#039;ve needed <b>800,000 </b>of these notes to buy a single loaf.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s an interesting article on this sorry episode: <a href="http://alphahistory.com/weimargermany/1923-hyperinflation/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://alphahistory.com/weimargermany/1923-hyperinflation/" rel="nofollow">http://alphahistory.com/weimargermany/1923-hyperinflation/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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