East African rupee

The British East African rupee ( East African rupee ) was the currency of the British colonies and protectorates from 1906 to 1920, so British East Africa, Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

The British East African rupee was divided into 100 cents and replaced the previously circulating in East Africa Indian Rupee.

1920, the British East African rupee was in turn replaced by the British pound sterling at a rate of 1 rupee = 2 shillings ( florin 1 ). In East Africa, followed in the same year the replacement of the rupee by the East African Florin.

It is worth mentioning that these currency contained the first aluminum coin ever, namely the 1- cent piece of 1907.

Silver coins were 1906 issued to the values ​​25 and 50 cents, followed by aluminum one -cent piece and the copper -nickel 10 cent 1907, the aluminum ½ cents in 1908 and the copper -nickel 5 cent coin 1913. 1909 replaced the cupro-nickel aluminum.

Bills

1906, the first banknotes were launched by the government British East Africa in circulation ( the first marked with the date 1905), with the values ​​5, 10, 20, 40, 100 and 500 rupees. 1920 brought the East African Currency Board issued a 1 rupee note, just before the rupee was replaced.

Swell

• Global Financial Data currency histories table
• Tables of modern monetary history: Kenya
• Tables of modern monetary history: Tanzania
• Tables of modern monetary history: Uganda

• Historical Currency Unit ( Africa)