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1 Rupie - Wilhelm II
| Issuer | German East Africa Company / Imperial German Colonial Administration |
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| Year | 1904-1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1904 A - - 1,000,000 1904 A - Proof - 150 1905 A - - 300,000 1905 A - Proof - 1905 J - - 1,000,000 1905 J - Proof - 1906 A - - 950,000 1906 J - - 700,000 1907 J - - 880,000 1908 J - - 500,000 1908 J - Proof - 1909 A - - 200,000 1910 J - - 270,000 1911 A - - 300,000 1911 A - Proof - 1911 J - - 1,400,000 1911 J - Proof - 1912 J - - 300,000 1912 J - Proof - 1913 A - - 400,000 1913 J - - 1,400,000 1913 J - Proof - 1914 J - - 500,000 |
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German East Africa operated a monetarily awkward system through most of the 1880s and 1890s, with the German East Africa Company issuing its own currency before the Imperial Colonial Administration absorbed control in 1891. The Rupie was retained — rather than introducing a Mark-denominated system — specifically because the Maria Theresa Thaler and Indian Rupee already dominated regional trade networks that German administrators could not simply override by decree.
When World War I isolated the colony, Governor Schnee and Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck authorized emergency Heller notes and bush coinage to keep the Schutztruppe supplied. The silver Rupie issues predating 1914 consequently became hoarded almost immediately.