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1 Korona POW Camp; Dunaszerdahely
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Dunaszerdahely |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on a cream guilloche underprint of interlocking diamond and wave patterns. The denomination numeral '1' appears in each upper corner, with the camp name 'CS. ÉS KIR. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR / DUNASZERDAHELY' arched above a bold central panel bearing 'EGY KORONA'. Two circular camp stamps flank two manuscript signatures below the date line. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CS. ÉS KIR. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR 1 DUNASZERDAHELY EGY KORONA MELY ÖSSZEG EGY RÉSZÉT KÉPEZI A HADIFOGLYOK RÉSZÉRŐL A TÁBORPARANCSNOKSÁGNÁL LETÉTBE HELYEZETT VAGYONNAK. DUNASZERDAHELY, 1916 JANUÁR 15. |
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Dunaszerdahely — today Dunajská Streda in Slovakia — hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's many prisoner-of-war camp auxiliary currency schemes during the First World War. These K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager issues were a practical administrative solution: camp scrip kept Allied prisoners from accumulating Austro-Hungarian crown currency that could theoretically fund an escape or circulate outside the wire.
Globus in Budapest printed a number of these camp issues, and the quality reflects a commercial job printer working quickly for a captive-market instrument with no prestige requirements. Dunaszerdahely's series is among the lesser-documented of the Hungarian camp issues, with surviving pieces rarely appearing in quantity — attrition from camp conditions and post-armistice destruction accounting for most losses.