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Timestamps:
0:00 - introduction
1:23 - Dutch Guilder
9:01 - British Pound
18:46 - US Dollar

Attribution:
Music by Epidemic Sound: nebula.tv/epidemic
Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.
Stock footage and others clips by Getty

Narrated and produced by Dr. Joeri Schasfoort