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100 Deutsche Mark

100 Deutsche Mark - obverse100 Deutsche Mark - reverse

© Deutsche Bundesbank

Features

Issuer Federal Republic of Germany
Issuing bank Deutsche Bundesbank
Period Federal Republic (1949-date)
Type Emergency banknotes
Year 1960
Value 100 Deutsche Mark
100 DEM = USD 59
Currency Deutsche Mark (1948-2001)
Composition Paper
Size 160 × 80 mm
Shape Rectangular
Technique Intaglio, Letterpress
Issued Never issued
Number
N#
579533

Series: BBK II

Obverse

Portrait of Sebastian Münster (after a painting by Christoph Amberger) with an abstract guilloche composition with intersecting geometric forms

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive)

Lettering:
Banknote
HUNDERT 100
DEUTSCHE MARK
DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK

FRANKFURT AM MAIN 1. JULI 1960

Translation:
Banknote
Hundred 100
German Mark
German Bundesbank

Frankfurt am Main July 1, 1960

Designer: Max Bittrof

Reverse

Abstract guilloche composition with intersecting geometric forms and the federal eagle emblem.

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive)

Lettering:
DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK

Banknote
100
HUNDERT DM
DEUTSCHE MARK
100
Hundert Deutsche Mark Hundert Deutsche Mark Hundert Deutsche Mark

WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT
ODER VERFÄLSCHT
ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE
SICH VERSCHAFFT
UND IN VERKEHR BRINGT,
WIRD MIT ZUCHTHAUS
NICHT UNTER ZWEI JAHREN
BESTRAFT

Translation:
DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK

Banknote
100
HUNDRED DM
GERMAN MARK
100

Hundred German Marks Hundred German Marks Hundred German Marks

WHOEVER COUNTERFEITS
OR FALSIFIES BANKNOTES
OR ACQUIRES COUNTERFEIT OR FALSIFIED
BANKNOTES
AND PUTS THEM INTO CIRCULATION,
SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH PENAL SERVITUDE
OF NOT LESS THAN TWO YEARS

Designer: Max Bittrof

Watermark

Portrait of Sebastian Münster (after a painting by Christoph Amberger)

100 Deutsche Mark -  obverse

© Deutsche Bundesbank

Signatures

Karl Blessing (KB) President of the Bundesbank
Heinrich Troeger (HT) Vice-President of the Bundesbank

Printer

Bundesdruckerei (Reichsdruckerei), Berlin, Germany (1879-date)

Comments

The BBk II series was a secret emergency banknote issue prepared by the Deutsche Bundesbank during the Cold War. The notes were designed as replacement currency for use in the event of war, large-scale counterfeiting or a disruption of the monetary system, but they were never officially circulated.

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Date Signatures No. printed VG F VF XF AU UNC
1960-Jun-01  KB, HT 104 580 000

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