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In 1915 and 1916 in the period of fighting in East Africa during World War I a large series of emergency issues of paper money were issued. 1916 also saw a final issue of coins to pay German led troops, including 15 Rupien coins which contained an equivalent amount of gold from the Sekenke Gold Mine to equal 15 German Marks. Later in 1916 ...
A heller from German East-Africa. The German heller was resurrected in 1904 when the government took over responsibility for the currency of German East Africa from the German East Africa Company. The heller was introduced as 1/100 of a rupie instead of the pesa, which had been a 1/64 of a rupie up to that time.
Media in category "German East African Rupie, 1915–1917 (featured picture set)" The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. GEA-9Ab-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-1 Rupie (1915).jpg 3,514 × 4,309; 5.02 MB
English: 1 rupee coin, German East Africa, 1902. Emperor Wilhelm II. Silver 917 tests, diameter 30.2 mm, weight 11.58 g. ... German East Africa, 1 rupee, 1902
German East Africa. German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. GEA's area was 994,996 km 2 (384,170 sq mi), [2][3] which was nearly three ...
A map of indigenously made pre-colonial African currencies and their respective minting states. In pre-colonial times, many objects were sometimes used as currency in Africa. These included shells, [1] ingots, gold (gold dust and gold coins (the Asante)), arrowheads, iron
5-Mark coin of William II. The federal states of the German Empire were allowed to issue their own silver coins in denominations of 2 and 5 marks from 1873. The Coinage Act of 9 July 1873 regulated how the coins were to be designed: On the obverse or image side only the state sovereign or the coat of arms of the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen or Lübeck was to be depicted, and the coin had to ...
The German East Africa Company (German: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft, abbreviated DOAG) was a chartered colonial organization that brought about the establishment of German East Africa, a territory which eventually comprised the areas of modern Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda. The company originated in 1884 as the Gesellschaft für ...