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| Uitgever | Darlehnskasse Ost (Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe) |
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| Jaar | 1916 |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Dark blue intaglio print on light blue underprint, with red serial numbers. The note carries the issuing authority's title and denomination in German script across the face, with the place and date of issue (Posen, 17 April 1916) incorporated into the text. Guilloche patterning forms the background underprint across the entire surface. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Dark blue intaglio print on light blue guilloche underprint, with the denomination repeated in Lithuanian and other regional languages of the occupied eastern territories. The reverse design mirrors the restrained, utilitarian style of the obverse, with the numeral value set centrally within a structured text layout. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Darlehnskasse Ost was a German military loan institution established in 1916 to manage currency in the eastern occupied territories — a financial instrument of occupation as much as of commerce. The Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe in Posen served as its operational base, and the notes were printed there rather than in Germany proper, an unusual arrangement that kept production close to the zone of intended circulation.
These notes circulated across a patchwork of occupied Russian and Polish territories where existing monetary systems had collapsed under wartime conditions. The 100 Rubel denomination addressed larger transactions in a region where German marks, Russian rubles, and various military scrip competed for legitimacy simultaneously.