Originally Posted by
soitgoes
IIRC, the amount of Begrüßungsgeld started out at 30DM and increased to 100DM by 1989.
I stand corrected... 15 DM was the amount East Germans were allowed to change in East Germany. Those 5 DM notes that suddenly started to appear must all have come from East German bank vaults.
(I
knew 15 DM came into it somewhere, it's just that I mis-remembered the "where"!)