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10 Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Notenbank |
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| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKNOTE ZEHN MARK DER DEUTSCHEN NOTENBANK DDR BERLIN 1964 10 FRIEDRICH v. SCHILLER 10 ZEHN (Translation: Banknote Ten marks of the German Central Bank GDR Berlin 1964) |
| Reverse description | A panoramic vignette of the VEB Carl Zeiss works in Jena occupies the central field, rendered in intaglio in blue-green tones, with the East German state coat of arms in an ornate circular frame at upper right. The denomination ZEHN MARK flanked by the numeral 10 appears along the lower portion, above the anti-counterfeiting warning legend. A decorative guilloche border frames the entire composition, with a large latent numeral 10 at the right margin. |
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The Deutsche Notenbank was the East German central bank from 1948 until 1968, when it was renamed the Staatsbank der DDR — making this 1964 issue one of the later notes to carry the DNB name. The Staatsdruckerei der DDR handled all GDR banknote production domestically, unlike earlier East German issues that relied on outside printers during the immediate postwar period.
A print run just above twelve million is modest for a circulating denomination, suggesting replacement of an earlier issue rather than a broad new release. The single watermark security feature reflects the relatively limited anti-counterfeiting infrastructure available to East German printing operations at the time.