Overview
- In Saxony, residents exchanged 1.24 million D‑Marks in 2025, worth about €634,000 at the fixed 1 EUR = 1.95583 DM rate.
- North Rhine‑Westphalia led regional totals with about 9.3 million D‑Marks exchanged last year, including a rare single deposit of 65,000 D‑Marks in Bielefeld.
- The Bundesbank estimates roughly 12.1 billion D‑Marks remain in households nationwide, much of it undiscovered or long forgotten.
- Exchanges skew heavily toward coins, with 43 million D‑Mark coins processed, often found during estate clearances or in unusual hiding places.
- The Bundesbank accepts all exchangeable D‑Marks without any time limit, has expanded opening hours at branches such as Leipzig and Chemnitz, and destroys items that are not eligible for payout.