RARE 1923 GERMAN INFLATION COLLECTION! 1+2+5+10+50+100 MILLION BILLS! XLNT COND!

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INFLATION SENSATION!! Here you have a superb collection of very scarce German Inflation currency in excellent condition dated 1923. The notes average crisp Very Fine-Extra Fine or better. Each one is exquisitely engraved with unique tinted paper and watermarks! Every note has the seal of the Weimar Republic (an eagle that also appears on the back of Weimar coins). All notes have the signatures of 10-12 Treasury Directors. But the most amazing thing about the collection is the fact that each bill is a successively higher denomination , starting with 1,000,000 and claimbing all the way to 100,000,000 Marks!! Just imagine the shock and awe of Americans waking up and have to spend a 100,000,000 Dollar bill to buy groceries! (Read the fascinating history below for more "shock and awe"). Oh, actually, there is one even more amazing thing about this collection, and that is its price. While our normal retail for bills like this ranges from $5 to $20 or more, your buy-now price if you ACT NOW is only $3.33 each!!! That is our wholesale price of 10 years ago - an incredible bargain that can't and won't last!! LIMITED TIME PROMOTIONAL OFFER !! Just to see if anyone is paying attention, lol, Here is what you will receive for the insane price of less than $3.33 a bill (serial numbers, minor design details & color variations may vary): EINE MILLION (Green Tint) 1,000,000 MARKS! ZWEI MILLIONEN (Lavender Tint) 2,000,000 MARKS!! FUNF MILLIONEN (All Pink!) 5,000,000 MARKS!!! ZEHN MILLIONEN (Yellow Tint) 10,000,000 MARKS!!!! FUNFZIG MILLIONEN (Magenta Tint) 50,000,000 MARKS!!!!! HUNDERT MILLIONEN (Blue Tint) 100,000,000 MARKS!!! ALL CRISP VERY FINE TO EXTRA FINE!! Very minor signs of age, wear, or handling may be present ( email if you would like the same collection In CHOICE UNCIRCULATED condition for just $9.99 more !!!!). Serial Numbers may vary from scan. Condition may vary somewhat also from note to note, but satisfaction is guaranteed! Don't lose this chance to INFLATE your collection....by 168 MILLION Marks!!! At a mere $3.33 per crisp, clean 90-year old bill!!! History of German Inflation Before World War I Germany was a prosperous country, with a gold-backed currency, expanding industry, and world leadership in optics, chemicals, and machinery. The German Mark, the British shilling, the French franc, and the Italian lira all had about equal value, and all were exchanged four or five to the dollar. That was in 1914. In 1923, at the most fevered moment of the German hyperinflation, the exchange rate between the dollar and the Mark was one trillion Marks to one dollar, and a wheelbarrow full of money would not even buy a newspaper. Most Germans were taken by surprise by the financial tornado."My father was a lawyer," says Walter Levy, an internationally known German-born oil consultant in New York, "and he had taken out an insurance policy in 1903, and every month he had made the payments faithfully. It was a 20-year policy, and when it came due, he cashed it in and bought a single loaf of bread." The Berlin publisher Leopold Ullstein wrote that an American visitor tipped their cook one dollar. The family convened, and it was decided that a trust fund should be set up in a Berlin bank with the cook as beneficiary, the bank to administer and invest the dollar.In retrospect, you can trace the steps to hyperinflation, but some of the reasons remain cloudy. Germany abandoned the gold backing of its currency in 1914. The war was expected to be short, so it was financed by government borrowing, not by savings and taxation. In Germany prices doubled between 1914 and 1919.After four disastrous years Germany had lost the war. Under the Treaty of Versailles it was forced to make a reparations payment in gold-backed Marks, and it was due to lose part of the production of the Ruhr and of the province of Upper Silesia. The Weimar Republic was politically fragile.But the bourgeois habits were very strong. Ordinary citizens worked at their jobs, sent their children... read more

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