Price of a Newspaper in Weimar Germany

Date Price in marks
Jan 1921 0.30
May 1922 1
Oct 1922 8
Feb 1923 100
Sep 1923 1,000
Oct 1, 1923 2,000
Oct 15, 1923 20,000
Oct 29, 1923 1,000,000
Nov 9, 1923 15,000,000
Nov 17, 1923 70,000,000

(Source: Mankiw, Macroeconomics, 5th ed. pp. 105-106)

I found this chart in the wonder Mises Institute lecture, Currency Failures from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A Brief History of Inflation:

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