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50 Deutsche Mark with holographic device
| Issuer | Deutsche Bundesbank |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Deutsche Bundesbank Fünfzig Deutsche Mark (Translation: German Federal Bank / Fifty German Mark) |
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| Protection description | Square Kinegram holographic foil at left center of obverse, shifting in color and pattern when tilted; embedded security thread running vertically through the note; watermark portrait of Balthasar Neumann visible when held to light |
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The fourth series of Bundesbank notes underwent a phased security upgrade program through the mid-1990s, and this 50-Mark issue represents the addition of the holographic foil strip — at the time one of the more technically demanding anti-counterfeiting measures in routine European circulation. Germany was among the first major economies to integrate holography at this scale on a widely-circulated mid-denomination note, driven largely by the surge in sophisticated reprographic counterfeiting that followed the spread of high-resolution color copiers.
Pick 45 distinguishes itself from earlier printings of the same design precisely by this feature. The underlying Bundesdruckerei sheet printing remained unchanged — the hologram was the sole modification.