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50 Heller Antalócz POW Camp
| Issuer | Industriegruppe der 12. Abt. des k. u. k. Kriegsministeriums Antalócz |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain white/light grey ground printed in black letterpress; issuer's title in Gothic script along upper edge above the large central legend KASSA-SCHEIN. Denomination stated in German at left and in Cyrillic Russian at lower left, with numeral 50 and HELLER. in bold at right. A plain circle occupies the centre, with bilingual redemption text in two columns below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Industriegruppe der 12. Abt. des k. u. k. Kriegsministeriums Antalócz KASSA-SCHEIN. FUNFZIG HELLER. ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЬ ФИЛЛИРОВЪ. 50 HELLER. Dieser Kassa-Schein wird den hierorts befindlichen Kriegsgefangenen gegen Vorweisung auf die Hand in Gesetzmässiger Wehrung nur bei obiger Abteilung eingelöst. По предявленію, эта квитанція будетъ розменяма местнимъ военнопленнимъ законноустановленими денгами въ выше сказаной кассы. |
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Antalócz was one of the Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camp complexes administered under the k.u.k. War Ministry's industrial labor groups — the 12th Department specifically oversaw the organization of prisoner labor for wartime industrial production. Camp scrip of this type was issued to allow POWs to make purchases within the camp canteen system while preventing Austrian currency from circulating among the prisoner population or leaking outside the wire.
The issuing authority's full name — Industriegruppe der 12. Abt. des k. u. k. Kriegsministeriums — makes this one of the more precisely documented WWI camp issues, which is not always the case with Lagergeld of this period. Campbell 1306 is the sole standard reference point for collectors.