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1 Franc - Nevers
| Uitgever | Dépôt de Prisonniers de Guerre de Nevers |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1914-1918 |
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| In omloop tot | Yes |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain voucher printed in black letterpress on lavender-tinted paper, with the denomination '1 franc' set in large type at centre. Two circular blue handstamps are applied over the face: one to the left bearing a small vignette and the legend 'NEVERS', and a larger one to the right reading 'DEPOT PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE DE NEVERS - Le comptable'. A manuscript serial number appears in the lower centre. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE de la 8e Région BON de 1 franc DEPOT DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE DE NEVERS - Le comptable - (Translation: War prisoners of the 8th region. Voucher of 1 franc. War prisoner depot of Nevers. The accountable.) |
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| Opmerkingen |
Nevers, a mid-sized town in the Nièvre department, housed one of the many French prisoner-of-war camps that operated under German occupation administration during the First World War. These camp scrip issues were a practical necessity — German and other prisoner populations needed a medium of exchange within the wire, and French francs were not permitted to circulate freely inside detention facilities.
The issuing authority, a prisoner depot rather than a civilian municipality, makes this a distinct category from the far more numerous French chambre de commerce emergency issues of the same period. Production was almost certainly local and rudimentary, which accounts for the variable paper quality and print consistency that collectors encounter across surviving examples.