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1 Rupie
| Issuer | Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Deutsch-Ostafrika |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Size | 102.5 × 62 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with text in two languages: German and Swahili, both attesting that the value of the note is fully deposited with the Imperial Government of German East Africa. Series letter 'B' appears at both left and right margins flanking the bilingual guarantee text. A counterfeiting warning in German is printed in the lower portion, and the serial number appears both at the top and bottom of the note. A rectangular printer's imprint reading 'DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKANISCHE ZEITUNG G.M.B.H. DARESSALAM' is stamped at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Der Gegenwert dieser Banknote ist bei dem Kaiserlichen Gouvernement von Deutsch Ostafrika voll hinterlegt. Kadri ya noti hii imewekwa sahihi katika Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Deutsch-Ostafrika Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKANISCHE ZEITUNG G.M.B.H. DARESSALAM |
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By 1915, the naval blockade had severed German East Africa from virtually all outside supply. Governor Heinrich Schnee's administration could no longer import printed currency, so emergency notes were produced locally by the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung — a newspaper printing house in Dar es Salaam, not a security printer. The results show it: typographic design, thin commercial stock, and none of the intaglio work that would normally characterize colonial currency.
Lettow-Vorbeck's guerrilla campaign kept the colony fighting until two weeks after the Armistice in Europe, making these notes among the last circulating paper of any German colonial territory. Schnee himself signed the instruments of surrender on 25 November 1918.