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10 Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Notenbank |
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| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Friedrich Schiller at right, set against a fine guilloche underprint in blue and green tones. The denomination ZEHN MARK is rendered in large letterpress at centre, with the issuing authority inscription DER DEUTSCHEN NOTENBANK DDR and date BERLIN 1964 below. A vertical panel at lower left bears the numeral 10 and the word ZEHN in contrasting style, with the serial number appearing twice in red at upper left and centre right. |
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| Reverse lettering | VEB CARL ZEISS, JENA 10 ZEHN MARK 10 WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT UND IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD BESTRAFT (Translation: Publicly Owned Enterprise Carl Zeiss, Jena Ten marks Whoever counterfeits or falsifies banknotes or obtains and puts into circulation counterfeit or falsified banknotes will be punished.) |
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The Deutsche Notenbank was the East German central bank from 1948 until 1968, when it was renamed the Staatsbank der DDR — making this 1964 issue one of the later notes to carry the DNB name. The Staatsdruckerei der DDR handled all GDR banknote production domestically, unlike earlier East German issues that relied on outside printers during the immediate postwar period.
A print run just above twelve million is modest for a circulating denomination, suggesting replacement of an earlier issue rather than a broad new release. The single watermark security feature reflects the relatively limited anti-counterfeiting infrastructure available to East German printing operations at the time.