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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1151664, member: 39&quot;]Depends on the denomination and the country/territory. In the Western occupation zones of Germany, after the June 1948 currency reform, the German Empire (Deutsches Reich) pfennig coins, with or without swastika, stayed in circulation - at one tenth of their face value - until Sep&#039;48 or Apr&#039;49. In the Eastern zone (later GDR) they were legal tender until some time between Nov&#039;48 and Apr&#039;50, again depending on the denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>What was kind of odd is that in Austria the 1 Reichspfennig zinc coin, with or without swastika, continued to be legal tender until the end of February 2002. (Not the 5, not the 10 etc. - those had lost their legal tender status long ago - , just the 1 Rpf.) Guess they had somehow forgotten about it, as the piece had an extremely low value that had made it useless quite a few decades before 2002. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the Federal Republic of Germany, the coins that said &quot;Bank deutscher Länder&quot; (1948/49) stayed in circulation until the euro cash changeover. And since they have the same specifications as the Federal Republic&#039;s pfennig coins, they can (like pretty much every coin and note from this country) still be redeemed too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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