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1 Krone Marchtrenk; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Marchtrenk (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Marchtrenk) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Haas & Comp., Steyr, Austria |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on an orange guilloche underprint of floral and lattice patterns forming a decorative border; the denomination numeral '1' appears in bold black at left and right. The central field carries the text 'EINE KRONE' and 'LAGERGELD' in bold letterpress, with a small double-headed eagle vignette in the underprint beneath. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central text, with printed role designations 'Referent.' and 'Lagerkommandant.' beneath each, and a serial number in the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | K. U. K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER MARCHTRENK EINE KRONE 1 LAGERGELD Referent. Lagerkommandant. HAAS & COMP. STEYR (Translation: Imperial and Royal prisoner of war camp Marchtrenk. One krone camp money. Consultant. Camp commander.) |
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Marchtrenk, in Upper Austria, held Russian prisoners captured during the early Eastern Front campaigns of 1914–15. The camp scrip issued there — of which this 1 Krone note is part — was printed by Haas & Comp. in nearby Steyr, a practical choice that kept production local and under military oversight. Camp currencies of this type were introduced across the Austro-Hungarian system to prevent prisoners from accumulating reichsgeld that could fund escape attempts or black-market dealings with civilian populations.
Haas & Comp. were primarily a commercial stationery printer, which shows in the workmanship.