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1 Krone Deutsch-Gabel; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando Deutsch-Gabel |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 1 Crown (1 Krone) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a yellow underprint, with an ornate scrollwork vignette at centre. The issuing authority heading appears in Gothic blackletter script across the top, with the denomination numeral '1' at each lateral margin and the value 'Eine Krone' in large Gothic type across the middle field. A circular camp stamp impression is visible at centre, and the place name 'Deutsch-Gabel' runs along the lower portion; series letter and serial number appear in a ruled panel below the heading. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 KRONE Der Betrag für diesen Gutschein wird bei Entlassung des Kriegsgefangenen in bar ausgezahlt, bei Überstellung in ein anderes Lager dahin überwiesen. Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel. (Translation: The amount for this voucher will be paid out in cash upon the release of the prisoner of war, or transferred if they are transferred to another camp. No public means of payment.) |
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Deutsch-Gabel — now Jablonné v Podještědí in the Czech Republic — hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's prisoner-of-war camp networks during the First World War. The K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando issued scrip denominated in Kronen specifically to restrict prisoners' access to outside currency, a policy applied across the empire's camp system to prevent hoarding of specie and limit contact with the civilian economy.
Camp scrip of this type was printed in small quantities, used hard, and almost never preserved by the prisoners who carried it. Survivors rarely kept it; guards had little reason to. Campbell 1353 is among the scarcer Austro-Hungarian PoW issues precisely because Deutsch-Gabel was a secondary facility, not one of the larger, better-documented camps.