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20 Deutsche Mark
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse reproduces the design of the Deutsche Bundesbank 20 Deutsche Mark banknote in teal-green tones, with a portrait vignette of a young woman at right, large numeral '20' at lower left, and the issuer name in both Latin and Fraktur blackletter script. A serial number appears twice and a floral sprig underprint is visible at centre-left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is a plain white field bearing centred letterpress text in Bosnian/Croatian, identifying this piece as a redeemable voucher for a wool product to the value of 20 DM, valid for show attendees. No vignette or decorative underprint is present. |
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The 20 Deutsche Mark series spans several distinct issues across the Bundesbank era, and without a Pick number or series date it's impossible to say which specific note this refers to. What can be said generally: the Bundesbank was unusually deliberate about redesigning its notes to stay ahead of counterfeiting technology, and each new series represented a policy decision as much as a design one.
If this is a pre-1991 issue, paper composition alone made these notes susceptible to wear along the fold lines — a known weakness of that generation of German federal notes before polymer elements were introduced into the substrate.