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200 Deutsche Mark with holographic device
| Issuer | Deutsche Bundesbank |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Size | 162 × 77 mm |
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| Reverse description | A period laboratory microscope occupies the central field, surrounded by abstract renderings of bacterial and viral forms in the underprint; the staff of Asclepius and a stylized retort appear at the lower right. The denomination is set in intaglio letterpress against a guilloché background. |
| Reverse lettering | ZWEIHUNDERT DEUTSCHE MARK |
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The P#47 200 Mark belongs to the BBk IIIb series, the final technical revision of the Deutsche Mark before euro conversion made the entire series obsolete. The holographic foil strip — a wide, iridescent patch rather than the narrow thread-style holograms used on earlier denominations — was added specifically to this series in response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting attempts in the mid-1990s. Germany was among the first central banks to deploy that format of hologram on a circulating note.
With the euro changeover fixed for January 2002, notes printed in 1996 had a short functional life. The Bundesbank redeemed Deutsche Mark notes without a deadline, a policy still technically in effect.