Germany Banknotes DDR 200 Mark banknote 1985
State Bank of the GDR - Staatsbank der DDR
Obverse: Young East German family at upper left.
Reverse: Kindergarten group with educator & National Emblem of the German Democratic Republic at left.
Watermark: Dove.
Size: 152 x 66 mm.
Printer: VEB Wertpapierdruckerei der DDR, Leipzig.
Texts: Staatsbank der DDR; Zwei Hundert Mark der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik.
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German Democratic Republic Mark Banknotes
1971-1985 Issue
Upon adoption of the deutsche Mark in East Germany on 1 July 1990, the East German mark was converted at par for wages, prices and basic savings (up to a limit of 4000 Mark per person, except a smaller number for children and a larger number for pensioners). Larger amounts of savings, company debts and housing loans were converted at a 2:1 rate whilst so-called "speculative money", acquired shortly before unification, was converted at a rate of 3:1. These inflated exchange rates were intended by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany as a massive subsidy for eastern Germany.
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