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Robert L. Ochsenhirt Collection of German and Eastern European currency, 1904-1951, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary Libraries.
Gift of Robert L. Ochsenhirt, 2019.
Collection 15 of German and Eastern Front bank notes. Of note are specific locations for some of the notes which include a note from the period of the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian revolution in 1905, a Ukrainian bank note issued by the short lived Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, and a Bulgarian bank note which dates from the first decade of communist rule in Bulgaria. The notes illustrate the tumultuous history of economics for this area and show the severity of the hyperinflation in Germany and surrounding Eastern parts of Europe in the early 20th Century. A complete list of the 15 notes is as follows: Deutsche Reichsbank, 10,000 Mark note, 1922 Deutsche Reichsbank, 10,000 Mark note, 1922 Deutsche Reichsbank, 1,000 Mark note (after 1910) Deutsche Reichsbank, 100 Mark note (after 1910) Deutsche Reichsbank, 100 Mark note, 1908 Deutsche Reichsbank, 100 Mark note, 1920 Deutsche Reichsbank, 100 Mark note, 1920 Reichsschuldenverwaltung, Reichskassenschein, 5 Marks (1904) Reichsschuldenverwaltung, Reichskassenschein, 5 Marks (1904) Deutsche Reichsbank, 20 Mark note (after 1910) Deutsche Reichsbank, 50 Mark notes (after 1910) Gutschein der Gemeinde Weisskirchen (Austria), 20 Heller (1920) Russian Empire, 3 ruble note (1905) Ukrainian People's Republic, 50 karbovantsiv note (1918) People's republic of Bulgaria, 3 lev note (1951)