Catalog
1 Rupie
| Issuer | Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Deutsch-Ostafrika |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| In circulation to | 1916 |
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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 sahihi 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 G.M.B.H. DARESSALAM |
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| Variants | P#7a - with Bank handstamp on back P#7b(1) - without Bank handstamp on back Text "Gebucht von:" not cancelled P#7b(2) - without Bank handstamp on back Text "Gebucht von:" cancelled |
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By 1915, the British naval blockade had severed German East Africa from any realistic prospect of imported currency stock. Governor Heinrich Schnee's administration turned to the colony's own print infrastructure — the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung in Dar es Salaam, a newspaper press, not a security printer. The result was a wartime emergency issue produced under conditions that no central bank would have sanctioned in peacetime.
Paper quality varied between print runs, and the notes were never difficult to replicate — a problem the colonial government acknowledged but had no practical way to solve. Lettow-Vorbeck's bush campaign meant that by the time many of these notes circulated inland, the issuing authority's grip on the territory was already contracting.