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25 Cents Amersfoort Concentration Camp
| Issuer | Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 25 Cents (0.25 NLG) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset prisoner canteen voucher on a white underprint of repeated text 'Pol. Durchgangslager Amersfoort' in fine letterpress. A large yellow downward-pointing triangle dominates the centre, with the bold numeral '25 CENT' printed in black over it. A yellow guilloche border frames the note, with the denomination and date inscriptions in black letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | POL. DURCHGANGSLAGER - AMERSFOORT HÄFTLINGS-KANTINENGELD DIESER GUTSCHEIN GILT ALS ZAHLUNGSMITTEL FÜR HÄFTLINGE DES POL. DURCHGANGSLAGERS AMERSFOORT UND DARF VON IHNEN NUR INNERHALB DES LAGERS VERAUSGABT UND ENTGEGENGENOMMEN WERDEN. DER UMTAUSCH DIESES GUTSCHEINES IN GESETZLICHE ZAHLUNGSMITTEL DARF NUR BEI DER HÄFTLINGSGELDVERWALTUNG ERFOLGEN. ZUWIDERHANDLUNGEN, NACHAHMUNGEN UND FÄLSCHUNGEN WERDEN BESTRAFT. DER LAGERKOMMANDANT: BERG (Translation: POL. TRANSIT CAMP - AMERSFOORT PRISONER'S CANTEEN MONEY THIS VOUCHER IS VALID AS A MEANS OF PAYMENT FOR PRISONERS IN THE POL. TRANSIT CAMP AMERSFOORT AND MAY ONLY BE ISSUED AND RECEIVED BY THEM WITHIN THE CAMP. THIS VOUCHER MAY ONLY BE EXCHANGED FOR LEGAL MONEY AT THE PRISONER'S MONEY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE. VIOLATIONS, IMITATIONS AND FORGERIES WILL BE PUNISHED. THE CAMP COMMANDER: BERG) |
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Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort was a German SS-run transit and punishment camp in the Netherlands, operational from 1941. The camp issued its own internal currency — a system used across the Nazi camp network to create the administrative fiction of economic normalcy while preventing prisoners from accessing regular Dutch money. These scrip notes were usable only within the camp, at the canteen, where goods were seldom actually available.
The presence of a watermark in camp-issued scrip of this kind is unusual and worth noting — it suggests the notes were produced with more formal materials than the improvised printing typical of smaller camp issues. Amersfoort's scrip series is among the more documented of the Dutch camp currencies, but survivor accounts consistently record that the canteen system functioned erratically at best.