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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1928939, member: 39&quot;]Saxony is still in Eastern Germany, hehe. (I know what you mean.) In the 1920s the state was in the central south, sort of. As for the &quot;message&quot; of the piece, well, on 1 Nov 1923 the Rentenmark was introduced which brought the hyperinflation period to an end. So this one was issued after (but probably not long after) that date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course many people did suffer (hence the &quot;Leidensweg&quot;); 260 bn mark* for one pound (500 g) of bread, that sure is a tremendous amount. Even worse, prices went up significantly within hours. And yes, many in Germany believed that what followed WW1, from the &quot;winners of the armistice&quot; POV, was harsh. Think of the Belgian-French occupation of the Ruhr area earlier in the year of that medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>But while most medals by Karl Goetz, for example, were pretty bad anti-French (and anti-British etc.) propaganda, this one puts the emphasis on how people struggled with and during the inflation. There are similar medals (like <a href="http://www.museum-digital.de/san/singleimage.php?imagenr=2514&amp;inwi=1&amp;w=1275&amp;h=664" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.museum-digital.de/san/singleimage.php?imagenr=2514&amp;inwi=1&amp;w=1275&amp;h=664" rel="nofollow">this one</a>) which in my opinion are primarily reminders of the &quot;bad days&quot; as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>* A German &quot;Milliarde&quot; - see the &quot; 260 Milliard.&quot; on the medal - is the same as an American &quot;billion&quot;. And our &quot;Billion&quot; is a trillion for you ...</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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