farewell to Mark and penny seems to have many German to fall nearly 17 years after the introduction of Euro banknotes and coins more difficult. Still billion D-Mark in circulation.

Whether in attics or hidden in the drawers: D-Mark-stocks are discovered by chance. According to the German Bundesbank at the end of November were Notes and coins of a total value of 12.55 billion not yet exchanged. Of 5.88 billion of this related to Bank notes and 6.67 billion coins.

exchange of 70 to 100 million D-Mark in the year

was The biggest part of the stocks, however, with the introduction of the Euro at the beginning of 2002 changes. In the beginning, as the “Teuro” insulted, accept the Euro is now to a large extent. In the case of a in the fall of 2017 poll, commissioned by the EU Commission, 81 percent of the respondents from the Euro.

“The D-Mark is the Symbol for the re-rise of Germany after the Second world war,” says Bundesbank Board member Johannes Beermann. For the people in East Germany, she had been from the turn of the autumn of 1989, “a Symbol of freedom”. Even before the matadorbet giriş political reunification of the D-Mark, replaced on 1. In July 1990, the GDR Mark, which – in an exchange rate of 1:1.

still in circulation, and for shopping, The D-Mark is used:.

From the exchange is not excluded

unlike in many other Euro area countries, the old D-Mark-treasures unlimited will be at the Bundesbank exchanged. Their claims to be submitted on the most common 100-Mark Notes, followed by the 500 – and 1000-Mark Bills. Per year, to be replaced on the average, 70 to 100 million D-Mark. This year, there were until the beginning of December the Central Bank estimated that about 86 million D-Mark.

And also of everyday life is not gone, the D-Mark. The fashion chain C&A, for example, the currency adopted on a voluntary basis. Since the beginning of November approximately 15,000 to 70,000 D-Mark go to a speaker, according to the nationwide daily in the branches. The fashion chain advertises in order to save the way to the Bundesbank and the D-Mark in savings to shop at the company. The back money is paid in euros.

The Association of industry in baden-württemberg, Gaiberg a business also, idea : There, customers can pay in may in the shops and restaurants, with the D-Mark.

The day the D-Mark came, 21.06.2018 Atlas |Germany |Frankfurt am Main

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