v09_1946 - GERMAN EAST AFRICA - WILLIAM II Roupie 1890 Berlin
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
Realised price : 103.67 €
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
Realised price : 103.67 €
Type : Roupie
Date: 1890
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 154394
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,69 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Petites marques de manipulation dans le champ des deux côtés. L'usure n'est visible que sur la visière du casque. Jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GUILELMUS II - IMPERATOR.
Obverse description : Buste casqué du kaiser Guillaume II à gauche avec l'uniforme de la Garde.
Obverse translation : (Guillaume II empereur).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEUTSCHE-OSTAFRIKANISCHE GESELLSCHAFT/ *EINE RUPEE*/ 1890.
Reverse description : Écu aux armes de la colonie.
Reverse translation : (Compagnie de l'Afrique orientale allemande /une roupie).
Historical background
GERMAN EAST AFRICA - WILLIAM II
(06/15/1888-11/28/1918)
East Africa was assigned to Germany at the Congress of Berlin in 1885 and its administration entrusted to the German East Africa Company. The territory with an area of almost one million square kilometers had a population on the eve of the First World War of 7.5 million inhabitants with Dar es Salaam as its capital. Colony in 1890, it was after the Treaty of Versailles entrusted to the English administration and became Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
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