Editing Deutsche Mark (section)

===Banknotes of the fourth series===
The design of German banknotes remained unchanged during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. During this period, forgery technology made significant advances and so, in the late 1980s, the Bundesbank decided to issue a new series of Deutsche Mark banknotes. The colours for each denomination remained unchanged from the previous series but the designs underwent significant changes and a DM&nbsp;200 denomination was introduced. Famous national artists and scientists were chosen to be portrayed on the new banknotes. Male and female artists were chosen in equal numbers. The buildings in the background of the notes' obverses had a close relationship to the person displayed (e.g., place of birth, place of death, place of work), as well as the second background picture (Lyra and the musician Schumann). The reverses of the notes refer to the work of the person on the obverse.

The new security features were: a windowed security thread (with the notes' denominations in microprinting), watermarks, microprinting, [[Intaglio (printmaking)|intaglio printing]] (viewing-angle dependent visibility as well as a [[Braille]] representation of the notes denomination), colour-shifting ink (on the DM&nbsp;500 and DM&nbsp;1000 denominations), a see-through registration device and ultraviolet-visible security features.

First to be issued were the DM&nbsp;100 and DM&nbsp;200 denominations on 1 October 1990 (although the banknote shows "[[Frankfurt|Frankfurt am Main]], 2. Januar 1989"). The next denomination was DM&nbsp;10 on 16 April 1991, followed by DM&nbsp;50 on 30 September 1991.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Linzmayer | first1 = Owen | title = The Banknote Book | chapter = Federal Republic of Germany | publisher = www.BanknoteNews.com | year = 2012 | location = San Francisco, CA | url = http://www.banknotebook.com | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120829063428/http://www.banknotebook.com/ | archive-date = 2012-08-29 }}</ref> Next was the DM&nbsp;20 note on 20 March 1992 (printed on 2 August 1991). The reason for this gradual introduction was, that public should become familiar with one single denomination, before introducing a new one. The change was finished with the introduction of the DM&nbsp;5, DM&nbsp;500, and DM&nbsp;1000 denominations on 27 October 1992. The DM&nbsp;500, and DM&nbsp;1000 denominations were rarely seen in circulation due to value and all were introduced in one step. With the advance of forgery technology, the Bundesbank decided to introduce additional security features on the most important denominations (DM&nbsp;50, DM&nbsp;100 and DM&nbsp;200) as of 1996. These were a hologram foil in the center of the note's obverse, a matted printing on the note's right obverse, showing its denomination (like on the reverse of the new [[euro banknotes]]), and the [[EURion constellation]] on the note's reverse. Furthermore, the colours were changed slightly to hamper counterfeiting.

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! colspan=11 | Fourth series; BBk III/IIIa<ref>[http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Bilderstrecken/dm_banknoten_der_serie_bbk_3.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145313/http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Bilderstrecken/dm_banknoten_der_serie_bbk_3.html|date=14 July 2014}}</ref><br/>{{small|Designer: [[:de:Reinhold Gerstetter|Reinhold Gerstetter]]}}
|-
! colspan=2 | Image
! rowspan=2 | Value
! rowspan=2 | Euro<br/>{{abbr|equi.|equivalent}}
! rowspan=2 | Dimensions<br/>(mm)
! rowspan=2 colspan=2 | Main<br/>colour
! colspan=2 | Description
! rowspan=2 | Printed<br/>from
! rowspan=2 | First<br/>issued
|-
! Obverse
! Reverse
! Obverse<br/>{{small|person/historical city}}
! Reverse
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:5 Mark (Obverse).jpg|65px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:5 Mark (Reverse).jpg|65px]]
| DM 5
| align=center | €2.56
| align=center | 122 × 62
| style="background:#80C080;"|
| Green
| [[Bettina von Arnim]];<br/>[[Berlin]]
| [[Brandenburg Gate]]
| 1991
| 27/10/1992
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:10 Mark (Obverse).jpg|70px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:10 Mark (R).jpg|70px]]
| DM 10
| align=center | €5.11
| align=center | 130 × 65
| style="background:#C080FF;"|
| Purple
| [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]];<br/>[[Göttingen]]
| [[Sextant]]
| 1989–1999
| 16/4/1991
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:20 Mark (Obverse).jpg|75px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:20 Mark (R).jpg|75px]]
| DM 20
| align=center | €10.23
| align=center | 138 × 68
| style="background:#80E0E0;"|
| Aqua
| [[Annette von Droste-Hülshoff|Annette von Droste-<br/>Hülshoff]]; [[Meersburg]]
| [[Quill]]; [[Fagus sylvatica|European beech]]
| 1991–1993
| 20/3/1992
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:50 Deutsche Mark (Obverse).jpg|alt=|80px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:50 Deutsche Mark (Reverse).jpg|alt=|80px]]
| rowspan=2 | DM 50
| rowspan=2 align=center | €25.56
| rowspan=2 align=center | 146 × 71
| rowspan=2 style="background:#C0C080;"|
| rowspan=2 | Olive
| rowspan=2 | [[Balthasar Neumann]];<br/>[[Würzburg]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Würzburg Residence]]
| 1989
| 30/9/1991
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:50 DM 1996.jpg|80px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | 
| 1996
| 2/2/1998
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:100 Mark (Obverse).jpg|85px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:100 Mark (R).jpg|85px]]
| rowspan=2 | DM 100
| rowspan=2 align=center | €51.13
| rowspan=2 align=center | 154 × 74
| rowspan=2 style="background:#80C0FF;"|
| rowspan=2 | Blue
| rowspan=2 | [[Clara Schumann]];<br/>[[Leipzig]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Piano|Grand piano]]
| 1989–1993
| 1/10/1990
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | 
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | 
| 1996
| 1/8/1997
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:200 Mark (Obverse).jpg|90px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:200_Mark (Reverse).jpg|90px]]
| rowspan=2 | DM 200
| rowspan=2 align=center | €102.26
| rowspan=2 align=center | 162 × 77
| rowspan=2 style="background:#FFC080"|
| rowspan=2 | Orange
| rowspan=2 | [[Paul Ehrlich]];<br/>[[Frankfurt am Main]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Microscope]]
| 1989
| 1/10/1990
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | 
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | 
| 1996
| 1/8/1997
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:500 Mark (Obverse).jpg|95px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:500 Mark (Reverse).jpg|95px]]
| DM 500
| align=center | €255.65
| align=center | 170 × 80
| style="background:#FF8080;"|
| Red
| [[Maria Sibylla Merian]];<br/>[[Nuremberg]]
| [[Dandelion]], [[Geometer moth|inchworm]],<br/>[[butterfly]]
| rowspan=2 | 1991–1993
| rowspan=2 | 27/10/1992
|-
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:1000 Deutsche Mark (Obverse).jpg|100px]]
| style="background:#000; text-align:center;" | [[File:1000 Mark (Reverse).jpg|100px]]
| DM 1000
| align=center | €511.29
| align=center | 178 × 83
| style="background:#C0A080"|
| Brown
| [[Wilhelm Grimm|Wilhelm]] and [[Jacob Grimm|Jacob]]<br/>[[Brothers Grimm|Grimm]]; [[Kassel]]
| ''[[Deutsches Wörterbuch]]'';<br/>[[Alte Bibliothek]]
|-
| colspan=11 | {{Standard banknote table notice|BrE=Y}}
|}