Money!

[Flying10uk]

While sorting through a bag of my late grandparents old paperwork etc that should have been sorted through years ago but hadn't, I came across this Reichtsbanknote for 100,000 Mark. After about a "millisecond" of thinking "I'm rich", I remembered that in pre WW2 Germany one needed "a wheelbarrow full of cash" just to buy a loaf of bread.

Looking online it would appear that this style of note was issued just in 1923 and part of the reason was Germany attempting to pay it's WW1 debts, apparently, as well as the rampant inflation, at the time, in Germany. I don't know how my grandparents came to have the note but they did visit Germany in the early 1950's and so possibly it was purchased as a souvenir as, presumably, it was no longer legal tender at the time.

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[Ovidio]

Weimarer Republik. Horrendous inflation and one of the root causes for Onkel Adolf’s rise to power.

[Aragorn243]

I love old money, don't have a lot of it unfortunately. I collect anything I can find from the WWi and WWII time periods.

[42rocker]

On that note they made a lot of them. I've seen bundles of hundreds before on that note. If you get by the library, look at Picks paper money book printed by Krause. The German government issued a lot of different and larger notes also.
On that note I believe that there were 3 different serial number variations. 7 digit and 8 digit and Red and Green.
Enjoy.

Later 42rocker