Mr. Eden was living in Paris in 1956 when he read an advertisement in a newspaper announcing that exiles returning to Berlin would receive 6,000 marks (worth about $12,000 today).
Routledge had a story (confirmed to me by the Duke of Buccleuch's archivist) that in 1494 Simon Routledge and his son Matthew raided the Buccleuchs' castle at Rankilburn, caused 1,000 marks' worth of damage, stole 80 stone of cheese and took five horses, 40 cattle and 40 sheep.
Harold Evans, in his memoir, said that Murdoch persistently derided certain British politicians, or sent him articles with a strong conservative point of view, marked "worth reading!," or jabbed at headlines, or chastised Evans for not showing more "conviction," which Evans took to mean that he should show more support for Thatcher.
But remember: German banks are sitting on billions of marks' worth of equity in German firms.
Marks, worth $1.4 billion by Forbes' estimate, has been reshuffling his real estate portfolio on both coasts over the past year.
Alekhine's prize was 1,100 marks (worth about 11,000 euros in terms of purchasing power today).
The German mark is worth about 46 American cents, its lowest level in 14 years.
It is an ever fixed mark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken".
By contrast, the West German mark is worth roughly five East German marks in the unregulated black market for currencies.
James Cameron's heavy-metal 1991 sequel is the box-office high-water mark: $519.8m (worth $907.6m today).
Before unification the West German mark was worth 4.50 GDR marks; however, at currency union it was fixed at parity with an exchange rate of 1 1.
