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1 Pfennig Hammelburg; PoW Camp
| Issuer | II. Bayerisches Armeekorps, Hammelburg Prisoner of War Camp |
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| Currency | Papiermark (1914-1923) |
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| Obverse description | Small stamp-format voucher printed in brown on white paper with perforated edges on all sides. The centre bears a heraldic vignette of the Bavarian coat of arms flanked by laurel branches, surmounted by the inscription 'II. BAYR. A.' at top. A diagonal black overprint reading 'Hammelburg' crosses the vignette, with the denomination '1 PFG' printed below in bold letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is plain, unprinted paper with perforated edges on all sides, showing no text, vignette, or other design elements. |
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Hammelburg's prisoner of war camp operated under the II. Bavarian Army Corps and issued fractional pfennig denominations for internal camp canteen use — a necessity when the German military administration prohibited regular Reichsmark currency from circulating among prisoners. These miniature notes are among the smallest-format camp issues of the First World War, and the 1 Pfennig sits at the bottom of the denomination range, which typically extended to 50 Pfennig or higher depending on the camp's commercial needs at any given period.
Printed locally at Hammelburg rather than contracted to a commercial security printer, production quality varied considerably across the series.