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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 546173, member: 39&quot;]Right, unlike the paper money issued during the occupation (which looked like US notes) those are more &quot;local&quot; and, due to the portraits, similar to the later notes that the Bundesbank issued. The 50 DM note shows a portrait of either Willibald Pirckheimer or Hans Imhof, both from Nuremberg.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 100 DM note from that series is quite similar, a portrait featuring Jakob Muffel, also from Nuremberg. The portraits on both notes are based on Albrecht Dürer paitings, just like the 5, 10 and 20 DM from the first Bundesbank series (issued in the early 1960s). Different portraits but a similar design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another &quot;French German&quot; series would be the Saarmark <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar-Mark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar-Mark" rel="nofollow">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar-Mark</a> notes, I think. (The Saar-Mark only existed in the second half of 1947 and was then replaced by the Saar-Franken.) Not sure where they were produced, but as they are bilingual, and Saarland initially was a French protectorate, they may well have been made in France.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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