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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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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando Serie B 1 Eine Krone Deutsch-Gabel (Translation: Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Command. Series B. One Crown. Deutsch-Gabel.) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress on a yellow underprint, with the denomination '1 KRONE' in each of the four corners. A central panel enclosed by a wavy-line border carries the redemption conditions in Gothic blackletter script. Below it, a circular medallion flanked by symmetrical acanthus-scroll ornaments contains the disclaimer text in smaller type. |
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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.