On this subject, one chronicle had this to say: “…if one gets any money, one must right away buy something with it … the market value changes several times daily. At this time, one pays for 1 American dollar 4 trillion Marks, for one French franc, 1 billion 1 hundred million, where before one would have paid 4.20 Marks and 80 Pfennigs respectively. …a 3½ pound loaf of bread costs 170 million, a pound of butter 1-2 trillion… Daily people come from the Moselle and offer sugar, brandy in trade… Bills are reckoned in fruit, as oats, barley and wheat are very much coveted.”