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1 Rupie Emergency issue
| Issuer | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain unadorned reverse with serial number printed twice — once at the top and once at the bottom — and a large prefix letter "H" at left and right centre. Three blocks of bilingual text in German and Swahili occupy the central field, accompanied by a small rectangular printer's imprint box at the lower left. |
| 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 |
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Printed by a newspaper press — the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung — because no proper banknote printer existed in the colony once the British naval blockade cut off supply lines from Germany. The entire Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank emergency series of 1915 was a wartime improvisation, produced on whatever equipment and paper Dar es Salaam could provide while Lettow-Vorbeck's forces held out against overwhelming Allied numbers.
Paper quality varies considerably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of the ad hoc sourcing. Frühling's signature appears on this denomination as the bank's authorized signatory throughout the siege economy period.