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1 Krone Prisoner Camp Note
| Issuer | K. u. k. Kriegsgefangenen-Gewerbelager Brunn am Gebirge |
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| Value | 1 Krone |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie D KRONE 1 КОРОНА K. u. k. Gewerbelager Brunn am Gebirge. GUTSCHEIN FÜR EINE KRONE Nur gültig im Innenverkehr des Kriegsgefangenen-Gewerbelagers in Brunn a. G. Dieser Betrag ist ein Anteilschein des bei der Depositenverwaltung deponierten Guthabens der Kriegsgefangenen. Puskás, k. u. k. Oblt., Verwaltungsoffizier. Popletsan, k. u. k. Oberst, Lagerkommandant. |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain fibrous white paper; show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is visible, with faint traces of the text and coat-of-arms bleeding through the stock. |
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Brunn am Gebirge, roughly fifteen kilometers south of Vienna, housed one of the Austro-Hungarian military's designated Gewerbelager — trade or craft camps — where prisoners of war with useful skills were segregated and put to work in organized workshops. The internal scrip issued there served the standard dual purpose of controlling purchasing power within the camp economy while ensuring that no Entente prisoner could accumulate Austrian currency with value beyond the wire.
The signatures are unusually legible for camp scrip of this type. Oberst Popletsan as Lagerkommandant and Oberleutnant Puskás as Verwaltungsoffizier — the administrative officer — both signed, which suggests the camp maintained more formal bureaucratic procedures than many comparable installations.