Shades of brown with some dark green. Clara Zetkin at right. GDR crest at top, left-of-center. Serial number appears in red at top left and to the left of portrait.
Reverse description
Shades of brown with some dark green and shades of red & orange in fine-line patterns. Industrial monitoring/control-room scene attended by a worker. GDR crest at left
Signature(s)
Protection type
Watermark
Protection description
Watermark in left margin of Clara Zetkin.
Obverse lettering
STAATSBANK DER DDR
ZEHN
MARK
DER
DEUTSCHEN
DEMOKRATISCHEN
REPUBLIK (Translation: State Bank of the GDR Ten Marks of the German Democratic Republic)
Reverse lettering
WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER
VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT / UM
SIE IN VERKEHR ZU BRINGEN / WIRD BESTRAFT .
ZEHN MARK
DER DEUTSCHEN DEMOKRATISCHEN REPUBLIK (Translation: Whosoever copies or falsifies banknotes or who acquires copied or falsified banknotes in order to put them into circulation will be punished. Ten Marks of the German Democratic Republic)