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Bundesbank: Cosmetics for Bank Notes

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July 29, 2014

What happens with damaged bank notes? A special department at Germany's federal bank, the Bundesbank, turns old money into new. If savings have been accidently burned in the oven, or nibbled on by mice, Bundesbank experts try to put the notes back together again. If they can reconstruct more than half of the note, customers can exchange them for new cash.

Report by Paula Henfling

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