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100 Mark
| Issuer | Kaiserliche Gouvernement Deutsch-Südwestafrika |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided letterpress note printed in black on a green guilloche underprint, with the Imperial German eagle coat of arms centred on the face. Denomination and issuing authority legends are set in Gothic blackletter script consistent with Imperial German emergency Kassenschein issues. The overall layout is austere, reflecting the exigency of wartime colonial currency production. |
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| Variants | P#5a - issued note P#5b - cancelled note |
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Deutsch-Südwestafrika's 1914 emergency currency was born of a specific military and logistical crisis: when war broke out, the colony was immediately cut off from Germany and from the Reichsbank notes that normally supplied daily commerce. Governor Theodor Seitz authorized a series of locally produced Schatzscheine to keep the colonial economy functional. The notes were printed within the territory itself, under conditions that showed — paper quality and printing were uneven across the series.
Seitz surrendered to South African forces in July 1915. Notes still in circulation at that point became worthless almost immediately, which is why high-denomination examples like this 100 Mark are rarely found in any condition approaching fine.