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About Breakaway
Breakaway is a catalog of currencies orphaned by the collapse of a state or monetary union — the post-Habsburg krone, the Soviet ruble zone, the Yugoslav dinar — where a successor government issued a new money, lopped the zeros, or pegged its way out. Each case is traced from the breakup to the reform on the record.
What you'll find here
- The currency, the country, the year, and the verdict — stated up front, never buried
- The peak inflation rate and the highest banknote ever issued, in a four-cell stat bar
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- How the money died and the exact act that ended it — a new currency, a redenomination, a peg, a dollar, or a repudiation
- Transferable lessons, and real references from central banks, the IMF, and named scholarship
Breakaway is part of Zero Hour — a reference network on dead currencies: the hyperinflations and monetary collapses, each resolved by the documented act that retired the old money.