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1 Korona POW Camp; Boldogasszony
| Issuer | Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp, Boldogasszony |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Obverse description | Central text panel enclosed within a decorative picture-frame border, with the combined Austrian and Hungarian coats of arms above the denomination text. All inscriptions in Hungarian, arranged in a formal letterpress composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | CS. és K. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR Egy korona PÉNZ GYANÁNT MINT RÉSZÖSSZEG A HADIFOGLYOK LETÉTÉBŐL BOLDOGASSZONY, 1916. MÁJUS 1. (Translation: Emperor and King's prisoner of war camp 1 korona For money as part of the deposit of the prisoners of war Boldogasszony, 1st of May, 1916) |
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Boldogasszony — today Frauenkirchen in Austria's Burgenland — held a significant POW camp during the First World War, and like many Austro-Hungarian internment facilities, it issued its own internal scrip to control prisoner spending and prevent coinage from accumulating inside the wire. These camp notes circulated exclusively within the compound; they were worthless outside and deliberately so.
The 1 Korona denomination aligns with the standard Austro-Hungarian monetary unit of the period, though the scrip carried no redemption guarantee once the war ended. Most camp issues were destroyed or discarded at liberation, which accounts for the scarcity of surviving examples across virtually all k.u.k. POW camp series.