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100 Deutsche Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Notenbank |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| In circulation to | 1964 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-brown and rose on a cream ground, centred on a large oval vignette of fine guilloche lathe-work enclosing a stylised landscape with wheat ears and floral garlands, surmounted by the bold intaglio inscription "HUNDERT" and the subsidiary panel "DEUTSCHE MARK". Denomination numerals "100" in rose appear at lower left and lower right within guilloche cartouches, and the header "BANKNOTE" runs along the top border. The anti-counterfeiting legal warning is typeset in small letters along the lower margin, while the right margin tab carries the letterpress inscription "HUNDERT MARK" flanking a rose guilloche rosette. |
| Reverse lettering | BANKNOTE 100 100 HUNDERT DEUTSCHE MARK 100 100 WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT UND IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD LAUT GESETZ BESTRAFT HUNDERT MARK (Translation: Hundred German Mark Whosoever counterfeits banknotes or markets them will be punished according to the law. Hundred Mark) |
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The Deutsche Notenbank was the central bank of the German Democratic Republic, not to be confused with the Deutsche Bundesbank established in West Germany the same decade. This 100 Mark note belongs to a series that circulated in a command economy where banknotes functioned more as rationing instruments than as free-market currency — the parallel existence of the Forum-Scheck hard-currency system meant ordinary East Germans rarely held large-denomination notes by choice.
A print run of just over twelve million is modest for a denomination of this size, and attrition was high; the GDR periodically recalled and exchanged note series on short notice, which destroyed a significant proportion of survivors.