[ 15 ] Twenty-five Soviet roubles would have been dear at a farthing.
[ 16 ] On this note is stamped 20 Kruna to indicate that five dinars exchanged for twenty Austrian crowns.
[ 17 ] To-day, November 30, 1921, the paper pound is worth about four fifths of a gold pound. The purchasing power of gold—say, the gold dollar—is perhaps about two thirds of what it was before the war.
[ 18 ] Taken by permission from an article by the author in the Saturday Evening Post of November 12, 1921.