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1 Krone Aschach a. d. Donau POW
| Issuer | K. u. K. Kriegsgefangenenlager in Aschach a. D. (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp, Aschach on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | K. u. k. Kriegsgefangenenlager in Aschach a. D. Eine 1 Krone Lagergeld Verwaltungsoffizier Lagerkommandant |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: K. and prisoner of war camp in Aschach a. D One Heller Camp money Administrative Officer Camp Commander) |
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Aschach an der Donau was one of several Austro-Hungarian POW camps that issued its own internal scrip to control the camp economy and prevent Austrian currency from leaving the compound. These Lagergeld notes were a deliberate policy of the k.u.k. War Ministry, not ad hoc improvisation — camps were required to run self-contained monetary systems. Haas & Comp. in Steyr was a local job printer, not a security printing house, and that shows in the relatively simple typography.
Surviving examples are genuinely scarce. Most camp scrip was demonetized and pulped after armistice, and what little escaped destruction did so by accident rather than design.