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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Jan 2011 at 18:40:42 (UTC)

Original - Front and back of an original 1944 German Military Reichsmark.
Reason
It is high dpi and high resolution. There are less wrinkles than the original upload.
Articles in which this image appears
Reichsmark
FP category for this image
History/World War II
Creator
Sumsum2010

Support Assuming others are satisfied that the copyright is OK. The creases are annoying but everything is still clear. JJ Harrison (talk) 11:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't replied above because, despite reading as much as I could on it, I'm still not sure that the template on it is accurate, even though it is, as Sumsum2010 says, the one used on other German currency images. The Deutsche Bundesbank has said that there are no legal restrictions on reproducing Deutschmarks, which is not quite the same as saying they're in the public domain but perhaps close enough. However, Nazi-era currency would be a different issue. After the war the copyrights on work-for-hire done for the Third Reich government reverted to the authors, but something like this would obviously be collective authorship, in which case its copyright would not be held by anyone (since the Nazi government was considered an illegal entity after the war, it couldn't hold copyright). So I feel confident in saying that no copyright claim could be made on this image, but less confident in endorsing the particular template that's currently on it. Still, since there's no way it would be deleted from Commons, I'd say it's suitable to be featured if voters think the quality and historical value are sufficient. Chick Bowen 04:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Jujutacular talk 22:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]