The mark-dollar exchange rate rose from 4.2 to one in 1914 to a peak of around 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar by November 1923. At its height, prices were rising so fast that waiters had to climb on tables to call out new menu prices in restaurants every half hour. Banknotes became sufficiently useless that workers had to bring wheelbarrows with them to work to collect their daily pay Reichsbank ran over 180 printing presses on 81 factories to fulfill the demand To sped up the process the banknote was only printed on one side. Total circulation time was less than a month until it became worthless
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