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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 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed on a fine guilloche underprint with a cross-pattern fill across the entire field, enclosed by a typographic border of fine parallel rules. At the top centre, a vignette of the Austro-Hungarian imperial double-headed eagle with radiating sunburst is set within a rectangular frame. The camp designation is inscribed in blackletter script below the eagle, with the denomination "Eine 1 Krone" in large Gothic blackletter at centre. Two manuscript signatures appear flanking the word "Lagergeld", with the designations "Verwaltungsoffizier" and "Lagerkommandant" printed below in Roman type alongside a serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this camp currency note has not been documented separately; the note is believed to be uniface or bears only a plain reverse without additional vignettes or inscriptions. |
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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.