Sebastian Münster
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Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate wo
Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. 1552
Münster's Cosmographia
Tabula Novarum Insularum, 1540
Statue of Sebastian Münster in front of St. Remigius Church, Ingelheim
Deutsche Mark
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The Deutsche Mark, abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark", was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990, and then unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002. In English,
Sebastian Münster
…by Hans Holbein d. J. (Basel, c. 1530), Willem de Haen (1615), as rector of the University of Basel (by Christoph Amberger, um 1547), and on the 100-DM-bill as used from 1962 to 1991. Karl Heinz Burmeister: Sebastian Münster – Versuch eines biographischen Gesamtbildes. Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft…
Obverse view of the 2001 special gold issue of the DM1 coin
One Deutsche Mark (1948), first series, Allied military issue
The penalty for counterfeiting and forgery of banknotes (imprisonment at least two years) appeared on the upper right corner of the reverse of all third series banknotes. Note this is the post-1970 variant, featuring "Freiheitsstrafe" ("imprisonment") instead of "Zuchthaus" (roughly "hard labour prison").
Banknote mit dem Nominalwert 10 Deutsche Mark, Wertseite, ausgegeben 1980