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50 Marks
| Issuer | Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Kamerun |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Schatzschein Nr. D Verordnung vom 12ten August 1914. Funfzig Mark Duala, den 12ten August 1914. Kais. Gouvernement von Kamerun. |
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| Reverse lettering | Auszug aus der Verordnung des Gouverneurs von Kamerun über die Ausgabe von Schatzscheinen vom 12. August 1914. § 3. Diese Schatzscheine gelten als gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel vom Tage des Ausbruchs des Krieges bis zum Ablauf von zwölf Monaten vom Tage des endgültigen Friedensschlusses ab. Der Tag des Friedensschlusses wird seiner Zeit durch Bekannt- machung im Amtsblatt öffentlich bekannt gegeben werden. § 5. Wer diese Schatzscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, hat nach Maßgabe der §§ 146 ff Reichsstrafgesetzbuches Strafe zu gewärtigen. |
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The Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Kamerun issued this note in August 1914, within weeks of the outbreak of war in Europe. Cut off from Germany by British and French naval blockades, the colonial administration in Duala faced an immediate liquidity crisis — metropolitan currency could not reach the colony, and trade had to continue. These emergency treasury notes were the improvised answer.
The entire series was short-lived. Anglo-French forces invaded Kamerun in August 1914 and completed the conquest by February 1916. Notes that weren't destroyed in the retreat were largely invalidated under the subsequent French and British partition. Survivors are scarce precisely because the issuing administration ceased to exist so quickly after printing.