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Reichsbank notes across three regimes, the Notgeld of individual towns, occupation currency and camp scrip.
30 notes · 1917–1942
1 Mark, Prisoner-of-War Camp Money, 1917
— · OM-00207 · G
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00207
- Series year
- 1917
- Actually issued
- 1917
- Signatures
- No bank officer signature on this issue.
- Grade
- G (IBNS)
- Estimated value
- $4indicative
- Dimensions
- 100.2 × 59.6 mm (±0.6)
The type
- Type
- 1 Mark, Prisoner-of-War Camp Money, 1917
- Rarity
- common
- Themes
- First World War Camp money Closed currency
Inscriptions
Kriegsgefangenen-Lagergeld. IX. Armeekorps.
Prisoner-of-war camp money, IX Army Corps — spendable only in the camp canteen
Symbology
- Plain geometric border
- No heraldry, no allegory, no promise. Camp scrip needed only to be recognisable inside one perimeter.
What was happening
Camp money from a German prisoner-of-war camp of the First World War, issued by the IX Army Corps administration. Prisoners were paid for work in scrip that could only be spent in the camp canteen — a closed monetary system, designed so that no real currency reached a prisoner's hands and none left the camp.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1 Mark, Prisoner-of-War Camp Money, 1917 in the collection.