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1 Krone/1 Korona Nagymegyer; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Nagymegyer (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Nagymegyer) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Crown (1 Krone) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress print in black on a purple underprint, with the Austro-Hungarian Imperial coat of arms at top centre flanked by bilingual denomination numerals. The body of the note carries the full camp authorization text in German, with the issuing date of 1 July 1916 and three signature lines for the Proviant Officer, Camp Commandant, and Deposit Manager. A forfeiture warning against forgery runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 KRUNA 1 KPYHA Cs.es kir hadifogolytábor Nagymegyer Egy korona mely összeg a hadifoglyok részéről a táborparancsnokságnál letétbe helyezett vagyonnak egy részét képezi CSAKIS A HADIFOGOLY-TÁBORBAN ÉRVÉNYES NAGYMEGYER, 1916.JÚLIUS 1 GAZDÁSZATI TISZT TÁBORPARANCSNOK A TABORI ERTEKJEGYEK UTANZASA KATONAI BUNTETOJOGILAG BUNTETTETIK GLOBUS BUDAPEST LETÉTKEZELŐ (Translation: 1 crown. Imperial and Royal prisoner of war camp Nagymegyer. One korona which amount forms part of the assets deposited by the prisoners of war with the camp command. Valid only in the prisoner of war camp. Nagymegyer, 1916 July 1. Economic Officer / Camp Commander / Deposit Manager. Forgery of camp notes is punished by military criminal law.) |
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Nagymegyer — today Veľký Meder in Slovakia — was an Austro-Hungarian PoW camp that issued its own internal scrip rather than allow prisoners access to standard currency. This was deliberate policy across the K.u.K. system: camp-specific notes prevented hoarding of real coin and made black-market trade with guards and local civilians far harder to conceal or prosecute.
Globus was a Budapest commercial printer, not a security press, and it shows — the notes are modest production pieces with none of the anti-counterfeiting sophistication of state issues. The bilingual denomination, Krone in German and Korona in Hungarian, reflects the dual administrative language requirements of the imperial bureaucracy rather than any concession to the prisoner population.