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1 Krone Sigmundsherberg; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offiziersabteilung Kriegsgefangenenlagers Sigmundsherberg |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the face of this prisoner-of-war camp payment token is composed exclusively of typographic and geometric letterpress elements without pictorial vignettes. The denomination numeral '1' appears in large bold type at both the left and right corners, each accompanied by the word 'Krone' beneath, while a symmetrical guilloche-style radiating underprint fills the background. The central text block carries the full issuing authority inscription in decorative script across four lines, framed by a plain rectangular border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left as plain cream-coloured paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Sigmundsherberg, a large Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Austria, issued its own internal currency during the First World War as a means of controlling commerce within the compound and preventing hard currency from circulating among prisoners. The Offiziersabteilung — the officers' section — maintained administrative separation from enlisted men's quarters, and its scrip was issued and redeemed independently, a detail that distinguishes this note from the general camp series.
Campbell 1452 places this among the better-documented Austrian PoW emissions, but surviving examples remain genuinely uncommon. Camp notes of this type were designed to be worthless outside the wire, and most were destroyed or discarded at repatriation.