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1 Krone Aschach PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.k. Kriegsgefangenenlager in Aschach an der Donau |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire field within a ruled border with numeral "1" corner devices. The Austro-Hungarian imperial double-headed eagle appears as a vignette at top centre. The denomination "Eine 1 Krone" in Gothic blackletter script occupies the centre, flanked by two manuscript signatures above the titles Verwaltungsoffizier and Lagerkommandant, with "Lagergeld" between them. |
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| Reverse description | Uniform green guilloche underprint identical in layout to the obverse, with ruled border and numeral "1" corner devices, but without serial number or signatures, presenting a plain camp money reverse. |
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The K.u.k. Kriegsgefangenenlager at Aschach an der Donau held primarily Russian and Italian prisoners during the war years, and the camp scrip issued there — printed by Haas & Comp. in the nearby Upper Austrian town of Steyr — was a controlled internal currency designed to prevent prisoners from accumulating Austro-Hungarian crowns that could facilitate escape. Camp money of this type circulated only within the wire; it was redeemable for goods at the canteen but worthless outside.
Haas & Comp. produced scrip for several Habsburg camp administrations, making their output relatively traceable. Aschach examples are among the scarcer survivors from the Donau-region camps.