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1 Deutsche Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Notenbank |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 1 Mark (1 DDM) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKNOTE EINE DEUTSCHE MARK VON DER DEUTSCHEN NOTENBANK AUF GRUND IHRER SATZUNG AUSGEGEBEN BERLIN 1948 (Translation: Banknote / One Deutsche Mark / Issued by the Deutsche Notenbank on the basis of its statutes / Berlin 1948) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKNOTE EINE DEUTSCHE MARK DEUTSCHE MARK WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT UND IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD LAUT GESETZ BESTRAFT (Translation: One Deutsche Mark / Whoever counterfeits or falsifies banknotes, or obtains and circulates counterfeited or falsified banknotes, will be punished according to the law) |
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The Deutsche Notenbank was the central bank of the Soviet occupation zone, and this 1948 1 Mark note belongs to the currency reform that split German monetary history in two. The western zones introduced the Deutsche Mark through the Bank deutscher Länder on 20 June 1948; the Soviets, unwilling to allow western-controlled currency to circulate in their zone, responded within days with their own reform, overprinting existing Reichsmark notes before purpose-printed issues like this one became available.
Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig plant — nationalized under Soviet administration — handled production, making this one of the earliest postwar issues from that facility under East German authority.