The Illustrated London News 1923 Inflation Special

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August 1923 - The German Mark at 5,000,000 to the £ Pound sterling - Food queues in Berlin

Nov 10 1923 Germany's wild currency: Mark notes as child's Bricks

1914 There were 4.2 Marks to 1 U.$ Dollar and about 5 U.$ Dollars to the £ Pound

1923 There were 4.2 Trillion Marks to the U.$ Dollar and about 4 U.$ Dollars to the £ Pound (or about 17 Trillion Marks to the £ Pound)

Snippet from Wikipedia:

In October 1923, Germany experienced a 29,500% hyperinflation (roughly 21% interest per day)

Historically, this one-month inflation rate has only been exceeded three times:

Yugoslavia, 313,000,000% (64.6% per day, January 1994);

Zimbabwe, 79.6 billion% (98% per day, November 2008); and

Hungary, 41.9 quadrillion% (207% per day, July 1946)

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