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10 Korona POW Camp; Somorja
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Somorja (Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor Somorja) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Left panel bears a large guilloche vignette with the numeral 10 in the centre and the inscription CSAKIS A FOGOLYTABORBAN ÉRVÉNYES in a cartouche below. Right panel carries the Austro-Hungarian coat of arms at top centre flanked by oval denomination panels, with the large legend TIZ KORONA and a two-line Hungarian text confirming the deposit nature of the voucher, dated Somorja, 1916 Január 15, above the camp designation and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 TIZ KORONA AZ ÖSSZEG EGY RÉSZÉT KÉPEZI A HADIFOGLYOK RÉSZÉRŐL A TÁBORPARANCSNOKSÁGNÁL LETÉTBE HELYEZETT VAGYONNAK. SOMORJA, 1916 JANUÁR 15 CS. és K. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR SOMORJA TÁBORPARANCSNOK PÉNZTÁRBIZOTTSÁGI TAG CSAKIS A FOGOLYTÁBORBAN ÉRVÉNYES |
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Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camp scrip occupies a specific and underappreciated corner of WWI notaphily. The Somorja camp — located in present-day Šamorín, Slovakia, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary — issued internal currency to prevent POWs from accumulating spendable money that could fund escape attempts or be passed to the local population. The dual-language issuer name reflects the K.u.K. administrative reality: German for the imperial military bureaucracy, Hungarian for the local civilian authority.
Camp scrip from this period survives in wildly uneven quantities. Somorja issues are genuinely scarce.