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1 Rupie
| Uitgever | Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Deutsch-Ostafrika |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1915 |
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| Valuta | Decimalized Rupee (1904-1916) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Blue-gray note with an imperial eagle vignette at the upper left and the series letter 'A' at the upper right. The face carries the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions in German, with the notation 'Gebucht von' printed below the date at the lower left. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain blue-gray ground enclosed within a single-rule border, with the serial number printed twice — once at the top center and once at the lower right. The main text block carries a guarantee legend in German and a parallel Swahili translation, both attesting that the note's value is fully deposited with the Imperial Government of German East Africa. Series letter 'A' appears at the left and right margins flanking the bilingual text. A counterfeiting warning in German occupies the lower portion, and a small printer's box stamp reading 'Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung G.m.b.H. Daressalam' is present at the lower left. |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.