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| 表面の銘文 | Gutschein über Zwei Mark Swakopmunder Buchhandlung Ges. m. b. H. Geschäftsführer Filialleiter SWAKOPMUNDERBUCHHANDLUNG |
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| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| 偽造防止の説明 | Cardboard stock with an impressed linen texture pattern on the surface. |
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The Swakopmunder Buchhandlung — a bookshop and stationery business in Swakopmund — became an unlikely issuer of emergency currency after South African forces occupied German South West Africa in 1915. With the German colonial administration gone and coinage scarce, local businesses stepped in. The Buchhandlung's notgeld series was produced on cardboard, almost certainly from stock the shop already held, and the impressed texture served as a rudimentary anti-counterfeiting measure in a town small enough that forgery was a social rather than technical problem.
By 1918, German Southwest Africa was under full South African administration. Any of these notes still outstanding at that point had no redemption path worth counting on.