Catalog
1 Rupie
| Issuer | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank |
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| Year | 1915-1917 |
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| Reference(s) | P#26A |
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| Obverse lettering | Interims-Banknote Die Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank zahlt bei ihren Kassen im D.O.A. Schutzgebiet dem Einlieferer dieser Banknote ohne Legitimationsprüfung 1 Eine Rupie 1 Daressalam/Tabora Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank 1. November 1915. Zweigniederlassung Daressalam Kraft besonderer Ermächtigung. in Vollmacht: gez.: A. Frühling. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Gegenwert dieser Banknote ist bei dem Kaiserlichen Gouvernement von Deutsch-Ostafrika voll hinterlegt. Kadri ya noti hii imewekwa sahibi katika Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Deutsch-Ostafrika Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKANISCHE ZEITUNG, D.M.B., DARESSALAM |
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These notes were printed under wartime siege conditions. By 1915, the British naval blockade had severed German East Africa from its supply lines entirely — no banknote paper from Europe was coming through. The Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung was a newspaper printing house, pressed into emergency currency production using whatever stock was available locally. The results were predictably inconsistent: paper weight, color, and print quality vary considerably across surviving examples, and this variability is intrinsic to the issue rather than a sign of forgery or damage.
Frühling served as the colony's acting bank director through most of the war years. His signature appears across several emergency denominations from this period, all produced under the same improvised circumstances as German forces under Lettow-Vorbeck conducted their long guerrilla campaign.