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10 Rupien
| Issuer | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Decimalized Rupee (1904-1916) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-brown emergency issue printed on plain paper with a typeset design framed by a decorative border of repeating interlocked geometric motifs. The issuer's name, 'Die Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Bank', is set in large Gothic typeface at centre, above the promise-to-pay text in German; the denomination '10 Zehn Rupien' appears in bold at mid-field, flanked by numeral '10' in boxed corners. The date 'Daressalam/Tabora, 1. Juni 1916' and branch attribution 'Zweigniederlassung Daressalam' appear at lower centre, with manuscript signatures below the printed labels 'Gebucht von:' and 'In Vollmacht:'. |
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| Reverse lettering | B 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 B DEUTSCH-OSTAFRIKANISCHE ZEITUNG BURA DARESSALAM |
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By 1916, the colonial banking infrastructure of German East Africa had been completely severed from Europe. With no possibility of importing printed currency, the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung — a newspaper press in Dar es Salaam — was pressed into service producing emergency money. The results were predictably crude: typography-heavy layouts, thin local paper stock, and hand-applied signatures from whatever officials remained available as the British naval blockade tightened.
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's guerrilla campaign kept German forces in the field until after the Armistice, and these notes circulated accordingly — deep into territory, long after most colonial currencies had collapsed. Surviving examples frequently show heavy wear and improvised handling, which is simply what use under those conditions looked like.