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10 Korona POW Camp; Boldogasszony
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Boldogasszony |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Ornate letterpress voucher with a scalloped outer border and decorative frame. At left, a guilloche oval vignette carries the large numeral '10' above the inscription KRONEN; to the right, bold Gothic script reads 'Zehn Kronen' beneath the camp heading. Two manuscript signatures appear at foot under the titles LAGERKOMMANDANT and DEPOSITENVERWALTER, with a bottom banner restricting use to within the camp. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface issue; the reverse is entirely blank. |
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Boldogasszony — now Frauenkirchen, in today's Austria — housed one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War. The K.u.K. military administered a network of such camps across the empire, each issuing its own internal scrip to control commerce within the wire. These notes circulated only inside the camp perimeter; prisoners could not spend them elsewhere, and the system was designed specifically to prevent the accumulation of usable currency that might fund an escape.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, and their work on camp scrip was purely functional contract printing — nothing about this issue was considered significant at the time of production.