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2 Fillér POW Camp; Boldogasszony
| Issuer | Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor Boldogasszony (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Boldogasszony) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Central text block within a matching rectangular picture-frame ornamental border, with the combined Austrian and Hungarian imperial arms above the denomination inscription. Text rendered in German, mirroring the obverse layout in letterpress typography. |
| Reverse lettering | Zwei Heller (Translation: Emperor and King's prisoner of war camp 2 Heller For money as part of the deposit of the prisoners of war Boldogasszony, 1st of May, 1916) |
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Boldogasszony — now Frauenkirchen in present-day Austria's Burgenland — hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's many internal POW camps during the First World War. These camp-issued fractional notes existed because conventional coinage disappeared from circulation almost immediately after 1914, hoarded by a civilian population that trusted metal over paper. Camps issued their own scrip partly to prevent prisoners from accumulating currency usable outside the wire.
The 2 Fillér denomination is the lowest practical unit the camp bothered to print — enough for a small canteen transaction, nothing more.