Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 337

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(CURRENCY--GERMAN INFLATIONARY.) Dokumenten-Sammlung. Anno 1923. Das Katastrophenjahr. Prepared album with 74 German inflationary banknotes, attached to album pages with stamps hinges. Each note with accompanying letterpress text showing the inflationary spiral against the American dollar and the price of gold. Album begins with 2 large pre-inflation notes (1908 and 1910) and then proceeds with a one mark note from March 1920 and ends with one billion mark banknotes. A German bond with coupons is also included. There are several leaves of text regarding the period, plus a chart showing the inflationary spiral. 4to, crocodile or faux crocodile. 6 loose banknotes are laid in denominated from 1000 marks to 20 billion marks. Germany, probably late 1920s