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100 Rupien
| Issuer | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKANISCHE BANK zahlt bei ihrer Kasse in Daressalam dem Einlieferer dieser Banknote ohne Legitimationsprüfung EIN HUNDERT RUPIEN Daressalam, den 15. Juni 1905 Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank 100 RUPIEN EIN HUNDERT RUPIEN Giesecke & Devrient |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKANISCHE BANK EIN HUNDERT RUPIEN 100 |
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The Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank was chartered in 1905 specifically to provide a colonial currency infrastructure for German East Africa, replacing the makeshift use of Indian rupees and Maria Theresa thalers that had circulated in the territory for decades. This 100 Rupien note is among the earliest issues of that bank — the charter and the first notes arrived in the same year.
Giesecke & Devrient had been printing German imperial currency since the 1870s and brought the same intaglio quality to the colonial series. Surviving examples are genuinely rare; the entire Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank note series was effectively extinguished when Britain occupied German East Africa during the First World War and the bank's assets were seized in 1916.