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Message:: [QUOTE="George Brinton, post: 2960472, member: 91736"]I haven't figured out how to start a new thread here, so I'm stuck with replying...I figure some German notgeld might actually have been worth something, had utility, and not just for tourists and collectors at the time. Certainly, NG coins through 1919, and paper pfennigs until mid 1922...  I use the graph below and others in "images" to get an idea of when a particular denomination becomes useless--- 1/10 of a Cent? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AImg-Z121706-0001.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AImg-Z121706-0001.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Img-Z121706-0001.jpg</a>  Figure one Gold Mark (GM) = $0.25 USD[1923 silver] and then 1$ US1923silver fetches $17US [2018 bullion] (ballpark) Which puts a 1923GM worth $4.25 US2018and the you divide that by a thousand Reichsmarks (RM) Nov1922...  ...which gives you a value of 1RM [Nov1922]= $0.00425 in today's[2018] "sense of practical utility".  Anyway, 100 million RM becomes "worthless" very soon after distribution, but could be used to "make change" in the interim.[/QUOTE]