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75 Pfennigs Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag - B6: Carl Peters
| Issuer | Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicoloured vignette of the African continent with the locations of former German colonies marked, flanked on either side by palm trees rendered in green. |
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| Reverse description | Central portrait bust of Dr. Carl Peters in left-facing profile, executed in fine dark brown intaglio-style cross-hatching against a warm ochre underprint, set within a rectangular vignette framed by a green underprint border with stylised palm frond motifs; denomination "75 Pf." appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right. |
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Carl Peters was one of the most controversial figures in German colonial history — the architect of German East Africa and a man so brutal in his methods that he was eventually dismissed from colonial service by the Kaiser's own government in 1897, following a tribunal that found him guilty of abusing his authority. Rehabilitating him on a commemorative note in 1921, two years after Germany had been stripped of its colonies under Versailles, was a deliberate political act.
The Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag was a Hamburg-based commemorative event, and this Notgeld series was issued as collector scrip rather than functional currency — part of a wave of politically motivated colonial nostalgia issues that flooded the German market in the early Weimar years. Peters, long dead by then, had been recast as a martyr of empire.