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1 Francs - Nîmes
| Issuer | Dépôt de Prisonniers de Guerre de Nîmes |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 15eme RÉGION PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE BON POUR UN FRANC Valable seulement dans les dépôts - détachements de Prisonniers de Guerre RF (Translation: 15th region. Prisoner of war camp money. Good for one franc. Valid strictly within prisoner of war depots and detachments. French Republic) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, otherwise blank, bearing a large circular purple handstamp applied as the authorising validation. The stamp carries the legend around its circumference and encloses a small central vignette with a numeral in the centre field. |
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French prisoner-of-war camps issued their own internal scrip during World War One precisely to prevent detainees from accumulating currency usable outside the wire. The Nîmes depot was one of dozens of such facilities scattered across the south of France, and its notes circulated exclusively within the camp economy — canteen purchases, small trades between prisoners, nothing more. Redemption after the Armistice was administratively inconsistent, and a significant proportion of these issues were simply never presented, leaving survivors in varied states.
Camp scrip from this period is among the more historically direct paper money France produced — issued under duress, spent under confinement, and largely forgotten immediately after.