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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Werner Salentin, post: 39284, member: 2120&quot;]One June 21st,1948 in a surprise move a currency reform was</p><p>put into effect in the western occupied zones of Germany.</p><p>The Reichsmark was declared invalid and the Deutsche Mark</p><p>(DM) was introduced.To quell speculation and surprise the</p><p>Russian Zone,the whole move was done in great secrecy.</p><p>No new stamps were printed,but the Pfennig-values of the</p><p>second Controll-Council-Issue were overprinted.This was</p><p>done decentralized by different printers in a great hurry.</p><p>So faulty overprints are numerous.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]3673[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3674[/ATTACH]</p><p>There were two types of overprints,but I have the above only</p><p>in a complete set.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]3675[/ATTACH] </p><p>Of the second type I have a few stamps only.</p><p>For comparison here the two types side by side:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]3676[/ATTACH] </p><p>In the confusion of the rushed action also stamps of the first</p><p>Controll-Counci-Issue (numerals) were overprinted.</p><p>Sets of seventeen stamps each,in both overprint types,were</p><p>later declared valid by the central postal authorities.</p><p>Ten more stamps were not acknowledged,but exist genuinely</p><p>used.</p><p>Most numeral-overprints are quite costly.</p><p>The above stamps were valid in the American and British Zone</p><p>only and in West(ern)-Berlin.</p><p>The French Zone had her own stamps.</p><p>The one sided currency reform put an end to German unity.</p><p>It lead to the creation of two currencies DM-West and DM-Ost </p><p>(East) and from there of two states.</p><p>It took more than forty years and the breakdown of the</p><p>Soviet-Union,to overcome this split and achieve reunification.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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