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5 Marks
| Issuer | Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Kamerun |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 5 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | Schutzgebiet Kamerun Schatzschein Nr. A. Verordnung vom 12ten August 1914. Fünf Mark Duala, den 12ten August 1914. Kais. Gouvernement von Kamerun. |
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| Reverse lettering | Auszug aus der Verordnung des Gouverneurs von Kamerun über die Ausgabe von Schatzscheinen vom 12. August 1914. § 3. Diese Schatzscheine gelten als gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel vom Tage des Ausbruchs des Krieges bis zum Ablauf von zwölf Monaten vom Tage des endgültigen Friedensschlusses ab. Der Tag des Friedensschlusses wird seiner Zeit durch Bekanntmachung im Amtsblatt öffentlich bekannt gegeben werden. § 5. Wer diese Schatzscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, hat nach Maßgabe der §§ 146 ff Reichsstrafgesetzbuches Strafe zu gewärtigen. |
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The Kaiserliches Gouvernement von Kamerun issued this note in 1914 as an emergency currency measure almost immediately after the outbreak of war cut the colony off from normal financial supply lines. With metropolitan Germany suddenly inaccessible and the colonial treasury unable to obtain printed banknotes through regular channels, locally produced emergency notes — Notgeld in the colonial sense — were the only practical solution. Kamerun fell to Anglo-French forces by February 1916, making the entire series extremely short-lived.
Pick 1 is among the rarest of all German colonial issues. The occupation ended before most of these notes could circulate meaningfully.