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Old May 24, 2008 | 5:18 pm
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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"!)
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