!!!! Few Rare And Uncommon Photos!!!!

Indian being independent
cartoon by RK..

Very true in case of DD and Barood LOL

Matthias Steiner promised his wife a gold medal in the 2008 Olympics. She passed away a year before the games

https://i.imgur.com/gallery/r...Gz

East Africa : A very rare One shilling note 1943 (Courtesy: Pushpendra Shah )

A 10/- shilling Queen Elizabeth 11 note

1973 10/ note

Mimi ni fasta kwa Simba – apana vesa kamata mimi ju ya Raleigh cycly.

A very familiar sight on Nairobi streets was this Pathan:
knife & scissor sharpner in 1950’s.

In the 19th century, a number of currencies were in use in East Africa .
The most well known were the Theresean Dollar, the ‘Cowries’ (shells) from the Maldives.
Nevertheless, because of the steadily increasing trade with India, these were
replaced with the Indian Rupee
in the second half of the 19th century.
In 1890, the DOA (German East African Co.) affirmed its importance by
requesting the German Govt., to produce German Silver Rupee. Through a number of financial reforms,
this eventually led to the production of German Rupee notes in 1905. It is interesting to note
that for the Germans it was no option to introduce German coins and notes. This, no doubt,
was an official recognition of the importance of the Indian Rupee and, therefore,
the Indian business community.
After the Germans lost the First World War, German Tanganyika Territory became a British mandate.
The British East African Currency board printed shilling notes in which the English, Arabic and Gujarati languages are
in the forefront.
Note that at that time there was no reference to Swahili yet.
The formal money economy was considered to be non-African.
(Courtesy: Asians in East Africa by G.Oonk)