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20 Deutsche Mark
| Issuer | Deutsche Bundesbank |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK Banknote 20 ZWANZIG DM DEUTSCHE MARK 20 Zwanzig Deutsche Mark Zwanzig Deutsche Mark Zwanzig 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 20 TWENTY DM GERMAN MARK 20 Twenty German Marks Twenty German Marks Twenty 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) |
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| Protection description | F the Elsbeth Tucher portrait after Albrecht Dürer's 1499 painting, visible when held to light |
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The 1960 series — the BBk I/1960 in Bundesbank internal classification — was the first complete postwar redesign to move away from the transitional Allied occupation aesthetic toward something distinctly West German in character. Max Bittrof, who had worked on German banknote design since the Weimar period, brought considerable institutional continuity to the project; his involvement bridged the republic's currency discontinuity in ways the notes themselves were meant to project.
The Bundesdruckerei had operated under the name Reichsdruckerei until 1951, and the Berlin facility remained the sole production site despite its geographically exposed position inside the GDR — a deliberate political choice to assert West German presence in the city.