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Goldmark — gold-value accounting unit

T-FTM000919 · Outside the currency tree

Not a separately circulating currency or legal tender; do not confuse with the pre-1914 mark.

Gold-value reckoning must be distinguished from a separate independently used currency. Keep the goldmark convention in profile context pending adjudication.

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Goldmark — gold-value accounting unit: Not a separately circulating currency or legal tender; do not confuse with the pre-1914 mark.

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Goldmark was a gold-value accounting unit, distinct from circulating marks. Date anchors divergence from gold parity, not the birth of this accounting convention.

Deutsche Bundesbank · Purchasing power comparisons — history of German money Citation S435 · Open source ↗

History of money section, paragraphs on 1873, 1914 and 1924

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