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German Empire, Wilhelm II, 1000 Reichsmark 1910

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German Empire, Wilhelm II, 1000 Reichsmark 1910 (obverse) German Empire, Wilhelm II, 1000 Reichsmark 1910 (reverse)

For most Germans, 1,000 mark were an astronomical amount of money at the beginning of the 20th century. A good number of them supposedly never lay hands on such a bill – not to mention of spending it. Around 1910, a diner with a beer cost about 70 pfennigs. The average salary of a full time worker at that time amounted to about 1,000 marks – per year.

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