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1 Korona POW Camp; Sopronnyék
| Issuer | Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor Sopronnyék (K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Sopronnyék) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Purple and grey voucher with a guilloche-laden border; large numeral '1' set within an elaborate cloud-like guilloche vignette at top centre. Central text in Hungarian reads 'CS. és K. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR SOPRONNYÉK' above the denomination 'EGY KORONA' in ornate letterpress. Below, a legal clause and the date 'SOPRONNYÉK, 1916. JUNIUS 16.' appear above two facsimile signatures flanking the Austro-Hungarian arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | GÜLTIG NUR INNERHALB DES KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS SERIE No KuK KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER SOPRONNYÉK EINE KRONE DIESER BETRAG IST EIN ANTEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO ERLIEGENDEN GUTHABENS DER KRIEGSGEFANGENEN SOPRONNYÉK, 16. JUNI 1916. LAGER-KOMMANDANT KASSAKOMM. MITGLIED. DIE NACHMACHUNG DER LAGERGELDER WIRD KRIEGSGESETZLICH BESTRAFT. „GLOBUS” BUDAPEST. |
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Sopronnyék — now Neckenmarkt in modern Austria — hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian empire's many prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, and like dozens of similar installations, it issued its own internal scrip to keep foreign currency out of circulation among prisoners. These camp notes were legally valid only within the wire, a deliberate policy enforced across K.u.K. POW facilities from 1915 onward.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer routinely contracted for this kind of low-security job. The notes were not engraved — simple typography and basic printing stock throughout the series.