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100 Marks
| Issuer | Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Kamerun |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The German imperial eagle vignette is centred on the note, printed in dark ink on plain grey paper within a decorative typographic border. The denomination "Einhundert Mark" is rendered in large blackletter type, with the serial number prefixed "E" printed in the upper centre alongside the Schatzschein number. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion, above the issuing authority inscription. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain grey paper without pictorial vignettes, bearing a two-paragraph German-language legal text extract headed "Auszug" in bold letterpress type. The text reproduces sections §3 and §5 of the Governor of Cameroon's ordinance of 12 August 1914, establishing the legal tender status of the Schatzscheine and prescribing penalties for forgery. |
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Pick 3 is one of the more remarkable pieces of colonial emergency finance to survive from the First World War. When Allied forces landed in Kamerun in August 1914, the German colonial administration in Duala found itself cut off from the Reichsbank and facing an immediate liquidity crisis. These notes were produced locally — not by a professional security printer — in the days before the town fell to Anglo-French forces in late September 1914.
The entire series circulated for weeks at most. Duala was occupied on 27 September 1914, and the issuing authority ceased to exist shortly after. Surviving examples are almost certainly those that left circulation before the surrender rather than redeemed notes, since there was no functioning redemption mechanism.