worthless. people would it willly get paid at work. pull a big brinks truck up to the office. and they would pay you in cash. people would go out and buy things and then return to work. two, three, four hours work they would pay you again and you would go out, because the prices would rise. a german writer told a story of two women carrying laundry baskets filled with bank notes. crowds gather around the store window. they put down baskets full of money to go look. when they came back, the bank notes, the money still there but the baskets were gone. another german recounts that he stopped in a cafe for a cup of coffee. sat down and noticed the price was 5,000 marks. sat down, grabbed a paper, drank his coffee, sat for an hour reading the paper. when he went to pay the bill the coffee was 8,000 marks because the mark lost that much value in an hour. these are bank notes. these are stamps. from the weimar republic. they put them on the dollars,