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1 Krone Antalócz POW Camp
| Issuer | Industriegruppe der 12. Abt. des k. u. k. Kriegsministeriums Antalócz |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#1307 |
| Obverse description | Plain grey ground printed in black letterpress; serial number and issuer inscription across the top, large bold title "KASSA-SCHEIN." below. A central circular guilloche underprint vignette is flanked by the denomination in German at left and numeral "1 KRONE." at right, with bilingual redemption text in German and Russian in two columns at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 19868 ※ Industriegruppe der 12. Abt. des k. u. k. Kriegsministeriums Antalócz. KASSA-SCHEIN. EINE KRONE. ЕДИНЪ КОРОНЪ. 1 KRONE. Dieser Kassa-Schein wird den hierorts befindlichen Kriegsgefangenen gegen Vorweisung auf die Hand in Gesetzmässiger Wehrung nur bei obiger Abteilung eingelöst. По предявленію, эта квитанція будетъ розменяема мѣстнимъ военноплениымъ законноустановлеными деньгами въ высше сказаной кассы. |
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The Antalócz camp scrip was issued under the authority of the Industrial Group of the 12th Department of the Imperial and Royal War Ministry — the administrative branch that managed prisoner-of-war labor deployment within the Austro-Hungarian military bureaucracy. POW camps operating under this department issued their own internal currencies specifically to pay working prisoners for labor performed, creating a closed monetary circuit that prevented scrip from leaving the camp economy.
Campbell 1307 places this among a broader class of k.u.k. camp issues, many of which survive in surprisingly small quantities — not because they were rare in issue, but because prisoners rarely had reason or opportunity to preserve them after repatriation.