D-Mark: Millions have not yet exchanged-act now!

Last year, around 1.8 million German marks were exchanged in Thuringia and Saxony. According to Antenne Thuringia , people received around 930,000 euros. This number shows a decline of around 130,000 D-marks, which corresponds to around 68,000 euros, compared to the previous year.

The number of submissions of old D-Mark notes and coins at the Bundesbank rose to almost 5,700 and is therefore around 800 submissions above the level of 2023. A total of a total of a total of 53 million D-Marks were exchanged for around 27.2 million euros-also a decline compared to 2023 when over 58 million D-Marks were exchanged.

Current exchange options and stocks

Most submissions came from Bavaria with around 11 million D-Mark and North Rhine-Westphalia with around 11.6 million D-Mark. After 23 years since the introduction of the euro bar money, almost 163 million D-mark notes and more than 23 billion D-mark coins have not been returned. The total value of this non-returned D-Mark amounts to almost 12.2 billion D-Mark, which corresponds to around 6.24 billion euros.

The Deutsche Bundesbank offers the possibility to submit old notes or coins free of charge at all 31 branches or by post to the Bundesbank branch in Mainz, such as bundesbank.de . The official exchange rate is 1.95583 D-Mark for 1 euro. There is no contribution or temporal limitation for exchange.

Accepted banknotes and coins include banknotes from the bank of German countries as well as the Deutsche Bundesbank as well as federal coins in D-Mark or Pfennig. However, not all banknotes and coins are accepted for exchange, for example banknotes and coins before June 20, 1948 or the 2-DM coin I. edition from 1951.