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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1475175, member: 39&quot;]Yes, the people in the GDR got a &quot;political&quot; exchange rate: 1-1 up to a certain amount (4000 M for most people). For anything beyond that, the rate was 2-1 otherwise, ie. for 2M you would get 1 DM. Well, the prices in the GDR had always been &quot;political&quot; - what was considered basic needs could be had cheap, what was considered luxury was very expensive. The euro, in terms of cash, came twelve years later.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Your friend can probably tell you more about this, but the GDR had two types of commems: Pieces that were made primarily for export - usually silver, high relief, low mintage, fairly expensive. GDR citizens could get those if they were in Kulturbund collectors clubs (and had a bit of luck ...). The others were Cu-Ni coins, often with relatively high mintages, and those were easier to get and to some extent even circulated in the GDR.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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