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| 正面描述 | Printed on lilac cardboard, the note is framed by a typeset border of interlocking guilloche bands with the denomination numeral '20' repeated in each corner. The central text block, in Gothic blackletter script, carries the issuing authority 'Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank', the payment obligation clause in German, and the bold legend 'ZWANZIG RUPIEN', with the place and date 'Tabora, den 15. März 1915' below. Two manuscript signature lines appear at the foot, one for 'Eingetragen durch:' and one for the Dar es Salaam branch representative 'In Vollmacht:', above the header 'Interims-Banknote'. |
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| 背面描述 | The reverse is printed on the same lilac cardboard stock and repeats the full obverse text layout in an identical typeset composition, again framed by guilloche border bands with the numeral '20' in each corner and the header 'Interims-Banknote' at the top. The payment obligation text, denomination 'ZWANZIG RUPIEN', date 'Tabora, den 15. März 1915', and the two signature lines for 'Eingetragen durch:' and 'In Vollmacht:' are all present, with manuscript signatures in ink. This mirror-image printing is characteristic of the emergency Interims-Banknote issues produced under wartime conditions in German East Africa. |
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By 1915, the naval blockade had made it impossible for the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank to import professionally printed notes from Germany. These 20 Rupien emergency issues were produced locally in Dar es Salaam on whatever materials were at hand — hence the cardboard stock, which varies noticeably in weight and tint across surviving examples. Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign kept German East Africa fighting longer than any other colonial theater, and the currency had to keep pace with it.
The cardboard substrate makes these unusually vulnerable to delamination along the edges, a condition issue specific to the 1915 emergency series rather than a function of handling.