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1 Rupie Emergency issue
| Issuer | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung, Daressalam |
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| Obverse description | Interim banknote (Interims-Banknote) with the German Imperial eagle vignette in the upper left corner, enclosed within a simple decorative border with ornamental corner pieces and a repeated asterisk guilloche band along the top and bottom margins. The denomination "1 Eine Rupie 1" is printed in bold letterpress at centre, with the issuing authority text, place names Daressalam/Tabora, date 1. November 1915, and a manuscript signature of A. Frühling below, issued under special authorisation of the Zweigniederlassung Daressalam. |
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| Signature(s) | A. Frühling |
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Printed by a newspaper press — the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung — because no proper banknote printer existed in the colony once the British naval blockade cut off supply lines from Germany. The entire Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank emergency series of 1915 was a wartime improvisation, produced on whatever equipment and paper Dar es Salaam could provide while Lettow-Vorbeck's forces held out against overwhelming Allied numbers.
Paper quality varies considerably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of the ad hoc sourcing. Frühling's signature appears on this denomination as the bank's authorized signatory throughout the siege economy period.