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5 Deutsche Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Notenbank |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 5 Mark (5 DDM) |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio vignette of an allegorical youth's head in three-quarter profile, rendered in a classical realist style within a fine guilloche border. At centre, the denomination "Fünf Reichsmark" is set in large Gothic blackletter script over an intricate guilloche underprint, with the issuing authority text and facsimile signature below. At left, a postage stamp-style adhesive overprint bearing the numeral "5" and the year "1948" was applied to validate the note for circulation in the Soviet occupation zone. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Brunswick Lion monument on its tall column in front of the Brunswick Cathedral, flanked on both sides by full-length figures of male workers rendered in a monumental realist style. The composition is framed by a fine guilloche border with denomination numerals "5" repeated at each corner, and the anti-counterfeiting warning legend runs along the lower margin in small letterpress text. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 Reichsmark 5 5 Reichsbanknote 5 Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. (Translation: 5 Reichsmarks 5 5 Reichsbank note 5 Whosoever copies or falsifies banknotes or acquires copied or falsified banknotes or brings them in circulation will be punished with prison for not less than two years.) |
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