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German East Africa – Provisional Banknotes of World War I (1915–17) edit

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Reason: High quality, high EV (presented as a complete set). Colonial German East Africa (1890–1919) issued both coins (beginning in 1890) and paper currency (from 1905 to 1917). Regular issue banknotes from the series of 1905 and 1912 were produced by German security paper printing specialists Giesecke & Devrient. During World War I production of the German East African rupie was relocated to Dar es Salaam, and produced using the presses of a local daily newspaper Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung. When regular paper supplies were exhausted, notes were printed on linen, commercial wrapping paper, later on paper made from jute, and in at least one case from wallpaper.
Original: A complete denomination typeset of six German East African rupie provisional banknotes in circulation from 1915 to 1917 during World War I. Payment obligation (reverse) is printed in both German and Swahili, with a counterfeit warning in German.
Articles in which these images appear: German East African rupie (all), newly added to German East Africa (1), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1)
FP category for this image: Currency
Creator: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung G.M.B.H. Daressalam (printer) for Colonial German East Africa
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History
Images by Godot13

Complete denomination typeset of World War I provisional banknotes
German East African Rupien (1915–17)

1 Rupie (1915)
5 Rupien (1915)
10 Rupien (1916)

20 Rupien (1915)
50 Rupien (1915)
200 Rupien (1915)

Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 16:47, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:36, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hafspajen (talk) 14:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support but when are you going to provide some banknotes we can print out and use? There's some really nice stuff I want and it's not going to buy itself. Belle (talk) 16:11, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Belle- Well, if I uploaded notes currently in circulation at the resolution I generally use, I’m fairly sure that there is a particular service that would be paying me a visit. You could attempt to spend one of these, but then I’m absolutely certain that same service (or your own local version) would insist on hosting you for an extended all expenses paid vacation…--Godot13 (talk) 17:12, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We could go on the lam. Venezuela? I have contacts there that could sort out the necessary documentation and would wait while we printed the money off to pay them with. Belle (talk) 01:50, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Yann (talk) 12:53, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:GEA-9Ab-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-1 Rupie (1915).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:GEA-32-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-5 Rupien (1915).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:GEA-41-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-10 Rupien (1916).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:GEA-45a-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-20 Rupien (1915).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:GEA-46a-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-50 Rupien (1915).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:GEA-49-Deutsch Ostafrikanische Bank-200 Rupien (1915).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]