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I know I've said a lot of the apartment building in the Fairview neighbourhood are getting on in age, but, when a binner I know showed me a plastic bag full of old German Marks bills from the 1920s, and 1930s, which he explained he'd found wedged in the underside of the roof of a gazebo, well, I didn't know what to make of it. Checking on the Internet, they're not, any of them, particularly valuable -- a couple of bucks for each, maybe, except, they're not that rare, either. Here are two. Click the images to enlarge them.

[caption id="attachment_2188" align="alignnone" width="497"] A 1923, Weimar Republic, 5-Rentenmark bill, from the bad-old-days of hyperinflation -- the wheat the Fräulein is holding probably cost a few wheel-barrows of these bills.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2189" align="alignnone" width="497"] I think this is a 1939 bill, but it also has a 1942 date on it, either way, we can see the firm's under new management even without the Nazi sigil; my friend said you could tell from the lad pictured on the bill, "just by the cut of his jib."[/caption]

Rentenmarks explained ►