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July 16, 2010

katfeete

on July 25, 2010

perial marks, while they are treated as currency in certain places, exist more as a measurement against which the exchange for other currencies can be set. Since the mark does not, precisely, exist, it's quite stable, and a great many Imperial bureacrats spend a great deal of time and obscure equations figuring out the precise amount of real money one could get for a mark.

The number of doles one could buy for a mark is best summarized as 'quite a lot'.