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1 Franc - Camp de Coëtquidan
| Issuer | Dépôts de Prisonniers de Guerre de la 10e Région |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed on salmon-pink paper, the obverse carries letterpress text in black ink arranged in three registers: the issuing authority 'DÉPOTS DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE de la 10e Région' at the top, with the denomination 'Un franc' in large bold type at centre. The left vertical border bears the word 'PRISONNIERS' in decorative upright lettering. Below the denomination are the signature lines for Le Commandant and Le Comptable, accompanied by a violet circular administrative handstamp at lower left and two handwritten manuscript signatures in ink, with a serial number prefixed by 'N°' at bottom left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain salmon-pink paper, unprinted, with faint show-through of the obverse text visible from the opposite side. The right edge retains a perforated separation margin. |
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Camp de Coëtquidan, located on the Breton moorland of Morbihan, was a French military base converted into a prisoner-of-war camp during the First World War. The 10th Military Region administered POW facilities across a broad stretch of western France, and these small-denomination notes were issued internally to allow prisoners to purchase canteen goods — a system imposed partly to prevent hoarding of French legal tender and partly to limit escape resources.
Emergency POW camp scrip of this regional type was rarely preserved by either prisoners or guards. Paper quality was poor by design, and surviving examples frequently show heavy fold wear from canteen use.