English: "Eine Mark" of "Darlehnskasse Ost", reverse side. Scan of banknote (printed in 1918), in use from April until December 1918 in a part of Russia that was occupied by the Germans (and afterwards in Lithuania until October 1922).
Scan of a banknote from my own collection. Banknotes are not copyrighted.
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