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Description
Issued by | Deutsche Bundesbank |
Issue | 1970-1980 “BBk Ia – Legal Clause … wird mit Freiheitsstrafe …”. 02.01.1980 |
Size | 122 x 62 mm |
Printer | Bundesdruckerei, Berlin (Germany) – BBG |
Watermark | Portrait of the “Beardless Clean Shaven Young Man” by Lucas Cranach the Elder. |
Security features | Multilevel header watermark. Running serial numbers. Metallic security strip. Green and blue fibres or threads interspersed in the paper fluorescing under ultraviolet light |
Signatures | Karl Otto Pöhl (President, 1980-1991); Helmut Schlesinger (Deputy Chairman, 1980-1991) |
Obverse | Custom engraved portrait “Beardless Clean Shaven Young Man” of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553) of Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) as a young man by Anton Neupauer. Oil on wood (the original, c.1500) |
Reverse | Sailing training ship called “Gorch Fock” of the “Bark” type, named after the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau (1880 – 1916). The ship was built by Blohm & Voss and is owned by German Navy (Deutsche Marine). The ship was launched and commissioned in 1958. Deutsche Bundesbank seal |