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1 Korona POW Camp; Ostffyasszonyfa
| Issuer | CS. és KIR. Hadifogoly-Tábor Ostffyasszonyfa (K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Ostffyasszonyfa) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress voucher with the Austro-Hungarian imperial coat of arms at top centre flanked by two large numeral '1' vignettes in orange guilloche frames. Central bold inscription EGY KORONA with camp name CS. és KIR. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR OSTFFYASSZONYFA above; date OSTFFYASSZONYFA 1916 JUNIUS 1. below. Side panels read CSAKIS A FOGOLYTABORBAN ÉRVÉNYES; multilingual marginal inscriptions UNA CORONA and ОДНА КОРОНА. |
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| Reverse lettering | K.u.K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER OSTFFYASSZONYFA 1 EINE KRONE 1 WELCHER BETRAG EINEN TEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO ERLIEGENDEN GUTHABENS DER KRIEGSGEFANGENEN BILDET. OSTFFYASSZONYFA 1 JUNI 1916 GÜLTIG NUR INNERHALB DES KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS UNA CORONA ОДНА КОРОНА GLOBUS BUDAPEST. |
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Ostffyasszonyfa was one of the larger Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camps in western Hungary, holding primarily Russian and Italian captives during the First World War. Camp scrip of this type was a deliberate administrative tool — by issuing internal currency redeemable only within the camp, authorities prevented prisoners from accumulating convertible money that could fund an escape attempt.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, not a security press, which shows in the relatively simple production of the series. The 1 Korona denomination placed this note at the lower end of the camp's internal wage scale, typically paid for labor details.