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Hyperinflation: The Story of 9 Failed Currencies
http://www.joelscoins.com/exhibger2.htm
When first issued in January of 1922 this note was the highest denomination of circulating currency ever issued by the German government. It would soon become small change. The note is sometimes called the "Vampire Note" . If you look carefully, and have a good imagination, you will see a vampire on the neck of the German worker. This was said to represent the French sucking the blood from Germany through the war reparations.
And how about something completely different?
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904
'The small town of Worgl in the Austrian Tyrol, suffering like every other town in Europe and America from the Great Depression, took the unlikely step of issuing its own currency'