Editing Deutsche Mark (section)

===Banknotes of the third series (BBk I/Ia)===
In 1957, with [[Bank deutscher Länder]] and the states' central banks merging to form the Bundesbank, new banknotes were being designed, as "Bank deutscher Länder" on the previous series was no longer correct. The previous series' notes had been made out of less durable paper and had a rather short life. While previously damaged notes could be replaced from reserve stocks, this stock was also coming to an end, necessitating a reprint.
[[File:Warnhinweis auf einer 1000 DM-Banknote (Serie 3).jpg|thumb|The penalty for counterfeiting and forgery of banknotes (imprisonment at least two years) appeared on the upper right corner of the reverse of all third series banknotes. Note this is the post-1970 variant, featuring "Freiheitsstrafe" ("imprisonment") instead of "Zuchthaus" (roughly "hard labour prison").]]
Typical security features at the time were guilloches, a multi-level head watermark and a security thread. Note numbers that fluoresced under UV light and green, yellow, and blue. 27 fluorescent fibers embedded in the paper appeared on most banknotes; however, some specimens without these features were in circulation. Starting in 1976, banknotes were equipped with machine-readable feature - a colorless inorganic oxide mixture applied to the security thread. Banknotes featuring that were designated BBk Ia within the Bundesbank. All banknotes of the third series bore the penalty for counterfeiting and forgery on the upper right corner of the reverse, from [[Strafgesetzbuch|German penal code]] section 146: "''Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus/Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft.''" ("Who falsifies or counterfeits banknotes, or procures falsified or counterfeit banknotes and releases them into circulation, is liable to imprisonment for at least two years".

The third series banknotes entered circulation on 10 February 1961, with the DM&nbsp;20 note. DM&nbsp;100 and DM&nbsp;50 followed next year, and DM&nbsp;5 and DM&nbsp;10 in 1963. High-denomination DM&nbsp;1000 and DM&nbsp;500 followed in 1964 and 1965, respectively.

The banknotes were printed exclusively in West Germany; in [[Bundesdruckerei]] in [[West Berlin]] and in [[Giesecke+Devrient]] in [[Munich]]. The third series banknotes ceased to be legal tender on 30 June 1995, when the fourth series notes had been in circulation for 3–5 years. There were a total of five issues of the third series, main differences being the dates, and signatures of the Presidents and Vice Presidents of Bundesbank:<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zeitung|first=Süddeutsche|title=DM-Mark-Scheine mit Sammlerwert|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/euro-und-banknoten-dm-mark-scheine-mit-sammlerwert-1.502264|access-date=2021-09-23|website=Süddeutsche.de|date=17 May 2010 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=GERMANY F.R.|url=http://banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/EUR/GFR/GFR.htm#DEUTSCHE%20BUNDESBANK|access-date=2021-09-23|website=banknote.ws}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Issue
!Date
!President
!Vice President
!Notable other changes
|-
|1
|2 January 1960
|[[Karl Blessing]]
|[[Heinrich Troeger]]
|
|-
|2
|2 January 1970
|[[Karl Klasen]]
|[[Otmar Emminger]]
|"Zuchthaus" has been replaced with "Freiheitsstrafe" following 1969 Great Penal Code Reform
|-
|3
|1 June 1977
|[[Otmar Emminger]]
|[[Karl Otto Pöhl]]
|Machine-readable "M" feature, now designated BBk Ia
|-
|4
|2 January 1980
|[[Karl Otto Pöhl]]
|[[Helmut Schlesinger]]
|
|-
|5
|2 January 1980
|[[Karl Otto Pöhl]]
|[[Helmut Schlesinger]]
|"Deutsche Bundesbank" copyright notice with year of the denomination's first issue added on the bottom of the reverse
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+1960 series<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 1986|title=Kursfähige Bundesbanknoten|url=https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/599692/abdfa7bdfea472f8985c0c2ca06076cd/mL/banknoten-ausgabe-1-data.pdf|url-status=live|website=[[Deutsche Bundesbank]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809224420/https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/599692/abdfa7bdfea472f8985c0c2ca06076cd/mL/banknoten-ausgabe-1-data.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-09 }}</ref>
|-
! colspan="2" | Image !! rowspan="2" | Dimensions 
! rowspan="2" |Paper color!! rowspan="2" | Main color !! colspan="2" | Description 
! colspan="2" |Date of
|-
! Obverse !! Reverse !! Obverse !! Reverse !! Issue !! Withdrawal
|-
| style="text-align:center" |
| style="text-align:center" |
| 120×60&nbsp;mm
|Green
| Green
|''[[Portrait of a Venetian Woman]]'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]] (1505)
|A branch with oak leaves and acorns symbolizes ''German nature''
| 6/5/1963
| 30/6/1995
|-
| style="text-align:center" |[[File:Banknote mit dem Nominalwert 10 Deutsche Mark (Serie 1961), Wertseite, ausgegeben 1980.jpg|frameless]]
| style="text-align:center" |
| 130×65&nbsp;mm
|Blue
| Blue
|''Beardless Young Man'' by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] (1500)
|[[German training ship Gorch Fock (1958)|Training ship Gorch Fock]] symbolizes ''German cosmopolitanism''
| 21/10/1963
|30/6/1995
|-
| style="text-align:center" |
| style="text-align:center" |
| 140×70&nbsp;mm
|Green
| Green
|''Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher, née Pusch'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]] (1499)
| A [[violin]] and a [[clarinet]] symbolizes ''the world of German music''
| 10/2/1961
|30/6/1995
|-
| style="text-align:center" |[[File:50 DM Serie3 Vorderseite aligned cropped.jpg|alt=|220x220px]]
| style="text-align:center" | 
| 150×75&nbsp;mm
|Yellow
| Brown
|Portrait of Hans Urmiller from ''Portrait of Hans Urmiller and his Son'' by [[Barthel Beham]] (1525)
| [[Holstentor]] in [[Lübeck]] symbolizes ''German civic pride''
| 18/6/1962
|30/6/1995
|-
| style="text-align:center" |
| style="text-align:center" | 
| 160×80&nbsp;mm
|Blue
| Blue
|''Cosmograph [[Sebastian Münster]]'' by [[Christoph Amberger]] (1552)
| An [[eagle]] with stretched-out wings ([[Coat of arms of Germany|Federal Eagle]]) symbolizes ''German state awareness''
| 26/2/1962
|30/6/1995
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 
| style="text-align:center" | 
| 170×85&nbsp;mm
|Yellow
| Red 
|''Portrait of a beardless man'' by [[Hans Maler zu Schwaz]] (1521)
|[[Burg Eltz]] in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]] symbolizes ''German chivalry''
| 26/4/1965
|30/6/1995
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 
| style="text-align:center" | 
| 180×90&nbsp;mm
|Yellow
| Brown
|''Portrait of Dr. Johannes Scheyring'' by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] (1529)
| [[Limburg Cathedral]] symbolizes ''[[Romanesque architecture]] in Germany''
|27/7/1964
|30/6/1995
|-
| colspan="9" |{{Standard banknote table notice|BrE=Y}}
|}