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2 Mark
| Uitgever | Swakopmunder Buchhandlung |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1916-1918 |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | German South West African Mark (1885-1915) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain card stock with a repeated letterpress underprint reading 'SWAKOPMUNDERBUCHHANDLUNG' across the entire field. Central text reads 'Gutschein über ZWEI MARK' in bold Gothic letterpress. Issuer name 'Swakopmunder Buchhandlung Ges. m. b. H.' appears below, with two manuscript signatures over the titles 'Geschäftsführer' and 'Filialleiter'; a serial number box is positioned at upper right. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
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| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Impressed texture |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.