In message 4174474C.8090002@telus.net, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net writes
Zinnmann wrote:
GM> Thanks to our wonderfull media, the solution should be simple. I created GM> two interwikis; one to "milliard" and one to "gold mark". Somebody GM>may know something sensible to say about the gold mark, but the GM>milliard article is there.
There is an article about "Goldmark" at the german wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldmark). I could try to translate it, but since i'm not very experienced in writing english, i would prefer, if a native speaker could do this job.
I don't know if that German article will help. It does mention that Germany used it until 1918, but the treaty in question is from 1921. :-$
A gold mark was also issued in April-October 1923 during the hyperinflation period, at its pre-war value of 20 gold marks = £1 sterling, 4.20 gold marks = $1 US. The hyperinflation was finally stabilised in November 1923 at 1,000,000,000,000 paper marks = 1 gold mark.
The same thing happened in Austria, with 14,400 paper kronen being worth 1 gold krone at the end of 1922.