German East Africa 5 Hellers 1904-16

Between 1885 and 1918, one of Germany’s main African colonies was German East Africa, which included what is now mainland Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. We can offer you a small selection of coins from the colony. These are the bronze 5 coins dated 1916. Unlike their pre-war copper equivalents, these were struck in brass at Tabora in the colony itself as a wartime emergency issue, rather than back in Berlin or Hamburg where most coinage was produced.