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1 Korona POW Camp; Hajmáskér
| Issuer | Cs. és Kir. Hadifogolytábor Hajmáskér (K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Hajmáskér) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CS. és KIR. HADIFOGOLYTÁBOR HAJMÁSKÉR EGY KORONA EZ ÖSSZEG EGY RÉSZÉT KÉPEZI A HADIFOGLYOK RÉSZÉRŐL A TÁBORPARANCSNOKSÁGNÁL LETÉTBE HELYEZETT VAGYONNAK HAJMÁSKÉR, 1916. MÁJUS 15. CSÁKIS A FOGOLY-TÁBORBAN ÉRVÉNYES INDIVISIBILITER INSEPARABILITER |
| Reverse description | Cream ground with matching brown and blue guilloche border and acanthus-leaf corner ornaments flanking large numeral '1' cartouches. Centre carries 'HAJMÁSKER' in bold letterpress above the large German denomination 'Eine Krone'. An oval underprint at top reads 'GILTIG NUR INNERHALB DES KRIEGSGEFANGENEN LAGERS'. Series 'XXIV MS' and serial number appear in upper corners; the Austro-Hungarian imperial coat of arms is centred below the text with two manuscript signatures. |
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Hajmáskér, a major Austro-Hungarian artillery garrison in western Hungary, operated one of the larger prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, holding primarily Russian and Serbian captives. Camp scrip of this kind was issued under official military authority to prevent prisoners from accumulating imperial currency — and to keep camp economies self-contained, with notes redeemable only within the wire.
Globus, a Budapest commercial printer, handled a number of these camp issues. The scrip has no standing in the postwar Hungarian monetary system and was effectively worthless the moment the camp dissolved.