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500 Mark Falsch
| Issuer | Staatsbank der DDR |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Replica banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT / UM SIE IN VERKEHR ZU BRINGEN / WIRD BESTRAFT FÜNF HUNDERT MARK DER DEUTSCHEN DEMOKRATISCHEN REPUBLIK (Translation: WHOSOEVER COUNTERFEITS BANKNOTES OR ALLOWS THEM / TO ENTER CIRCULATION / WILL BE PUNISHED FIVE HUNDRED MARKS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC) |
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| Protection description | Watermark in the form of the national emblem of the German Democratic Republic. |
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The "Falsch" designation here is the key detail — this is the contemporary East German counterfeit warning overprint, not a genuine circulating note. The Staatsbank der DDR issued these defaced specimens to train retail cashiers and bank staff to identify the 500 Mark note, with "FALSCH" (false) printed across the face to prevent any possibility of reintroduction into circulation. Training notes of this type were produced in small controlled quantities and were never intended to leave internal banking channels.
Survivor examples are uncommon precisely because they were treated as controlled materials, not collectibles.