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Reichsmark

Reichsmark

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Money used in Germany from 1924 to 1948
  • noun
  • /ˈraɪksˌmɑrk/
  • Archaic
: marco
  • Might it not be unwise to leave a billion gold Reichsmarks in the Bank of France?
  • million Reichsmarks

Examples

  • At the market, he managed to buy a piece of fruit for just two reichsmarks.

  • If you win, I pay you 7,400 reichsmarks.

    Schindler's List (1993)

  • 80 million reichsmark in gold.

    Black Sea (2014)

  • Your brother's sugar company is guilty of tax evasion amounting to one million Reichsmark.

    Woman in Gold (2015)

  • Perfect German-made I.D. papers and reichsmarks.

    Hart's War (2002)

  • "The Germany army of occupation will pay 50,000 Reichsmarks "to anyone whose information will lead "to the discovery of General Kreipe.

    Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

  • Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels!

    Network (1976)

  • During the 1930s, the cost of a loaf of bread was several reichsmarks.

  • After World War II, the value of the reichsmark had drastically declined due to economic instability.

Surface Forms

Reichsmark singular
Reichsmarks plural

Etymology

The word Reichsmark comes from two German parts: Reich meaning 'empire' and Mark meaning 'money' or 'coin'. So Reichsmark was the 'empire's money', the official currency of Germany from 1924 to 1948.