Digging for Dollars, German style By: Marc Bink Shift work is hard. It’s the classic “hurry up and wait” scenario that only people in the military can understand; hours of sheer drudgery interspersed with a few moments of terror. The other night I was hard at work and had a couple of hours to kill. I soon found myself looking at a couple of coin and banknote websites. Not really looking at anything in particular, it struck me that East German banknotes are still revoltingly expensive. These things had become the bane of my existence as a coin collector. Every time I had made any kind of a … [Read more...]