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1 Deutsche Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Notenbank |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Mark (1948-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Typographic letterpress design in olive-green on a tan guilloche underprint, with the central legend EINE DEUTSCHE MARK rendered in ornate lettering across the middle of the note, flanked to the right by an intaglio numeral 1 within a scalloped guilloche medallion enclosing the word MARK in an oval cartouche. Corner numerals 1 appear at all four angles within elaborate lathe-work borders, and the issuing authority text is set in smaller type beneath the central inscription. A two-letter prefix and seven-digit serial number are printed in red at upper centre. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green and tan intaglio design composed entirely of elaborate guilloche lathe-work, with a large central numeral 1 set within a finely engraved rosette vignette flanked symmetrically by two circular medallions each inscribed DEUTSCHE MARK. The field is enclosed within a multi-layered ornamental border of interlocking guilloche bands, with the word BANKNOTE in a rectangular panel at the top and a vertically set anti-counterfeiting legal warning along the right margin. A separate tan coupon panel at the far right carries a numeral 1 within a decorative cartouche. |
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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.