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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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| Obverse description | Imperial German eagle vignette at upper left, with two handwritten or stamped signatures; the left signature is accompanied by the authorisation text 'Kraft besonderer Ermächtigung', while a stamped signature appears at right. The note is printed in a simple typographic style on plain paper, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Variants | P#10a(1) - light-brown paper series C two handwritten signatures; round or oval Bank stamp on bank P#10a(2) - light-brown paper series C stamped signature "A. Frühling" at right P#10b - thick olive-brown paper series D P#10c - thick cream paper series D |
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Printed at the offices of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung in Dar es Salaam, this note is a product of genuine wartime isolation. By 1915, the British naval blockade had severed German East Africa from any external supply of currency or printing materials, forcing Governor Heinrich Schnee's administration to improvise with what was locally available — a newspaper press and whatever paper stock could be sourced in-colony.
The series is sometimes called Buschgeld — bush money — by collectors. Lettow-Vorbeck's forces used these notes in the field throughout the East Africa campaign.