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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 887011, member: 6986&quot;]It is the 500 rupien note from German East Africa.&nbsp; This and the 50 rupien and 100 rupien notes are the only notes with a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>German East Africa is modern-day Tanzania (minus the island of Zanzibar).&nbsp; The notes issued during WWI, particularly the one rupie notes, are more commonly known to collectors.&nbsp; The earlier notes consist of a 5 rupien, 10 rupien, 50 rupien, 100 rupien and the 500 rupien.&nbsp; The 5 rupien has a vignette of a lion and the 10 has a vignette of the port of Dar-Es-Salaam.</p><p><br /></p><p>The war in East Africa is an interesting tale and one that I have studied since I first ran across an account while I was in the US Army.&nbsp; My Cointalk name is a shortened version of the name of the German commander, Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took a flyer on a German token collection that a colleague had acquired.&nbsp; He was not interested in it but thought I might be.&nbsp; The collection had some pretty scarce German naval tokens and I was able to trade some of them for this note with a token collector in Germany.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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