East German mark
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The East German mark, commonly called the eastern mark in West Germany and after reunification, was the currency of the German Democratic Republic. Its ISO 4217 currency code was DDM. The currency was
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Unloading sacks of coins from the Staatsbank for destruction, 1990
DM 1 (1948)
DM 1 from the 1948 Eastern series
Reichsmark
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The Reichsmark was the currency of Germany from 1924 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, and in the American, British and French occupied zones of Germany, until 20 June 1948. The Reichsmark was t
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…mark (M) was divided into 100 pfennigs (pf). On 18 June 1948 a currency reform was announced for the western zones. Subsequently, on 20 June 1948, the Reichsmark and the Rentenmark were abolished in the western occupation zones due to Soviet counterfeiting of AM-Marks resulting in economic instability and inflation…
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Reichsmark coins without (1936) and with (1938) the Nazi swastika