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Key facts
- Code
- DDM
- Plural
- Marks
- Symbol
- M
- Nickname
- alu-chips
- 1 100
- Pfennig
- Pfennig
- Pfennigs
- Banknotes
- M5, M10, M20, M50, M100, M200 , M500
- Freq used
- 1pf, 5pf, 10pf, 20pf, 50pf, M1, M2
- Rarely used
- M5, M10, M20 (commemorative)
- User s
- Soviet occupation zone German Democratic Republic
- Central bank
- Staatsbank der DDR
- Pegged with
- Deutsche Mark = (DM1 – M1)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Mark der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
- Country
- German Democratic Republic
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- Commons category
- Banknotes of East Germany
- Commons gallery
- Mark der DDR
- end time
- 1990-06-30
- start time
- 1948-06-21
- unit symbol
- M
- replaces
- Reichsmark
- replaced by
- Deutsche Mark
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Encyclopedic overview
The East German mark (German: Mark der DDR [ˈmaʁk deːɐ̯ ˌdeːdeːˈʔɛʁ] ), commonly called the eastern mark (German: Ostmark [ˈɔstmaʁk] ) in West Germany and after reunification, was the currency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Its ISO 4217 currency code was DDM. The currency was known officially as the Deutsche Mark from 1948 to 1964, Mark der Deutschen Notenbank from 1964 to 1967, and from 1968 to 1990 as the Mark der DDR (Mark of the GDR). The mark (M) was divided into 100 pfennigs (pf).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “East German mark” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.