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| | Amity Shlaes Farewell to the Mark |
 | | The reform, which the Western Allies and their German adviser, a box-headed economics professor named Ludwig Erhard, announced over the radio, technically involved a simple trade of pieces of paper: the Germans were to exchange their old reichsmark for a new money, dubbed the deutsche mark. |
 | | The reichsmark moved from just over four to the dollar in July, 1914, to around 4 trillion to the dollar in November, 1923. |
 | | Hershey's bars, Lucky Strikes and lumps of coal had long since supplanted the almost worthless reichsmark as the medium of exchange. |
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