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Gold coins were minted in .900 fineness to a standard of 2,790 mark = 1 kilogram of gold (a mark was therefore about 0.3584 g of gold; a troy ounce of gold was worth 86.78 ℳ︁). Gold coin production ceased in 1915. 5-mark gold coins were minted only in 1877 and 1878. 5 mark, 1.9912 g (1.7921 g gold) 10 mark, 3.9825 g (3.5842 g gold) 20 mark ...
This is a list of commemorative coins issued by the Federal Republic of Germany. For regular coins , see Deutsche Mark and German euro coins . Those prior to 2002 were denominated in Deutsche Marks; subsequent ones have been denominated in euros .
The Deutsche Mark (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈmaʁk] ⓘ; "German mark"), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" ([ˈdeːˌmaʁk] ⓘ), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002.
Saar mark: Saarland: 1947 1947 Reichsmark Allied-occupied Germany Nazi Germany Weimar Republic: 1924 1948 German Rentenmark Weimar Republic: 1923 1924 German Papiermark Weimar Republic German Empire: 1914 1923 German gold mark German Empire: 1873 1914 Vereinsthaler: North German states 1857 1873 South German gulden: South German states 1754 1873
The price of one gold mark (358 mg of pure gold) in German paper currency at the end of 1918 was 2ℳ︁, but by the end of 1919 a gold mark cost 10ℳ︁. [18] This inflation worsened between 1920 and 1922, and the cost of a gold mark (or conversely the devaluation of the paper mark) rose from 15ℳ︁ to 1,282ℳ︁. [ 18 ]
The Reichsmark was replaced by the Deutsche Mark at a rate of 10:1 (1:1 for cash and current accounts) in June 1948 in the Trizone [5] and later in the same year by the East German mark in the Soviet Occupation Zone (colloquially also "Ostmark", since 1968 officially "Mark der DDR").
The notorious memoir was first published in 1924 and cost 12 deutsche marks -- at the peak of its popularity Hitler earned $1 million a year in royalties. Hitler made an absurd amount of money off ...
The remaining convertible mark of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a currency that officially replaced the German mark as de facto currency of the ruptured economy and hyper-inflation of local divided currencies after the Bosnian war, pegged to the German mark 1:1 at the time, and further pegged to Euro at the rate at which German mark was replaced, i ...