Where did this money come from?
East German mark
A history told through its predecessors and the currencies that followed.
7 ancestors0 descendantsEstablished connections in this atlas
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Predecessor1350–1386
Florentine gold-florin reckoningDocumented · Evidence periodMultiple connections
Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning2 connections · Includes qualified linksPredecessor1667–1750
Saxon–Bohemian silver-thaler reckoningQualified · Intervening stages openPredecessor1535
Austrian guldenQualified · Intervening stages openPredecessor1873
South German guldenDocumentedPredecessor1873
Brandenburg-Prussian thalerDocumentedPredecessor1948
German markDocumentedThis currency
East German markDates, conversion terms and evidence 8 connections
Brandenburg-Prussian thaler German mark
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗South German gulden German mark
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗German mark East German mark
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗Florentine gold-florin reckoning Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning
Evidence period: 1350–1386DocumentedA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning Saxon–Bohemian silver-thaler reckoning
Evidence period: 1500–1566QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗Saxon–Bohemian silver-thaler reckoning Brandenburg-Prussian thaler
Evidence period: 1667–1750QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning Austrian gulden
Evidence period: 1486–1535QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗Austrian gulden South German gulden
Evidence period: 1535QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
Read the evidence and qualifications ↗The currency’s profile explains its later replacement by an existing currency. That conversion is not founding ancestry.