Germany/Berlin 22.1.1929 - 20 Reichsmark - No O.2772556 - VF (see photo - a tear/rib)
Issuer: Germany 1871-1948
Period: Third Reich (1933-1945)
Currency: Reichsmark (1924-1948)
Size: 160 × 80 mm
Obverse: On the ornamented rectangle, on the banknote field - face value in words: "ZWANZIG REICHSMARK".
Under the nominal, the inscription: "Ausgegeben auf Grund des Bankengesetzes vom 30 August 1924. Berlin, dem 22 Januar 1929".
In English: "Issued on the basis of banking law of August 30, 1924. Berlin, January 22, 1929".
Below are the signatures of the chairmen of the board of directors of the Imperial Bank (Reichsbankdirektorium), against the background of the designation of the release series - L.
In the lower left corner there is a face value of the number “20”; next to it is a relief hot stamp - a seal of the control stamp. On the right, in an ornamented vignette, is a portrait of Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-1892).
Below the portrait is the image of the issuer's round brown seal: the inscription REICHSBANKDIREKTORIUM, around the eagle with outstretched wings; under the tail of an eagle is a small image of a five-pointed star. In the upper left and lower right corners - the serial number, the color is red, the series is designated by the letter.
The engraving on banknote is made after this photo of Ernst Werner von Siemens, 1885
Reverse: In the center of the ornamented rectangle is a picture of a worker with a plow, in a round vignette, the inscriptions: REICHSMARK at the top, REICHSBANKNOTE at the bottom. On the left - a putto with square (allegory of agriculture), on the right - a putto with compasses (allegory of industry). In the upper left and lower right corners - the serial number, the color is red, the series is designated by the letter.
Below - an explanatory inscription stating that fake banknotes will be punished with content in a correctional home for a period of at least two years.
Watermark: P#181a: Ernst Werner von Siemens at left
References: P# 181a, Rosenberg# 174
Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the Siemens. He was also the founder of the electrical and telecommunications company Siemens.
Ernst Werner Siemens was born in Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Hannover, in the Kingdom of Hanover in the German Confederation, the fourth child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer of the Siemens family, an old family of Goslar, documented since 1384.
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