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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 136729, member: 39&quot;]The man depicted on that 50 DM note can also be found in Frankfurt. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The note shows Hans Urmiller (some Bavarian treasurer, I think). The portrait was taken from a 16c painting attributed to Barthel Beham, and that painting is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. On the other side you see the Holstentor, an old city gate in Lübeck. The Holstentor can also be found on this year&#039;s &quot;state twoer&quot; <a href="http://www.bbr.bund.de/wettbewerbe/grafik/holstentor.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bbr.bund.de/wettbewerbe/grafik/holstentor.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbr.bund.de/wettbewerbe/grafik/holstentor.jpg</a> honoring the state of Schleswig-Holstein.</p><p><br /></p><p>That 50 DM note was part of the series inroduced in the early/mid 1960s. The series was replaced by a new one around 1990.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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