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[Currency Twenty Mark]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09620.352 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Germany Type: Object Date: circa 1940 Pagination: 1 banknote : paper : gray Height: 6.2 cm, Width: 8.7 cm Order a Copy

Foreign currency with gray-purple ink with the number twenty marked on both sides. Possibly German.

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