Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
3 Mark
| Uitgever | Swakopmunder Buchhandlung |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain cream-coloured note with a dotted rectangular border. A red imperial eagle vignette appears centrally in underprint, overlaid by letterpress text. A serial number box at upper right bears the heading "NUMMER". A manuscript signature appears at lower right. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Gutschein über 3 Mark Swakopmunder Buchhandlung Ges. m. b. H., Swakopmund NUMMER |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
Swakopmunder Buchhandlung — the Swakopmund bookshop — was not a financial institution by any stretch, yet during the South African occupation of German South West Africa it became one of several local businesses pressed into issuing emergency scrip. Following the German surrender in July 1915, the territory fell under South African military administration, and coinage rapidly disappeared from circulation. Local merchants stepped in to fill the vacuum.
That a bookshop printed its own 3 Mark notes is unusual enough. That the denomination is in Mark — the currency of a defeated colonial administration — rather than in shillings or pounds, places this squarely in the transitional chaos of 1916–1918, when currency conventions in the territory were genuinely unsettled.