665 million marks won’t buy you what it used to

Especially when you find them strewn along the side of the A10 near Berlin, wrapped up in little aluminium packets.

And especially when you consider that nobody here pays with marks anymore. And especially so when they’re the old Reichsmark type issued between 1913 and 1923.

Maybe this was a foiled caper by those great poker tournament robbery robber guys. Maybe it wasn’t.

Hinweise auf den Besitzer des Geldes fanden sich nicht.

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  1. Hey, I wouldn’t toss those old D-Marks away. If the Euro tanks, Germans might start pulling out all of their Marks they’ve hidden under their mattress for a rainy day — and Germany has many days, of course.

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