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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 44020, member: 39&quot;]After WW2, Saarland had a special, sort of autonomous, status. Politically it joined the Federal Republic on 1-Jan-1957; economic integration was completed, so to say, in mid-1959 when the DM became the only legal tender there. The Saar currency was called Franken, and there were four denominations: 10 Fr, 20 Fr, 50 Fr, 100 Fr.&nbsp; The Saar coins are dated 1954/55 and have the same size, composition, etc. as the corresponding French franc coins of those years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other five states were parts of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) before they joined the Federal Republic in 1990 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The DDR had Mark and Pfennig coins, but most of the circulation pieces were made from aluminum ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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