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1 Pfennig Celle; PoW Camp Cellelager
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Cellelager |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Cellelager. Gutschein über einen Pfennig. Cellelager, den 21. November 1917. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
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| Protection type | Perforation |
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Cellelager was one of the larger German officer prisoner-of-war camps of the First World War, and the internal scrip issued there solved a practical administrative problem: keeping Allied officers supplied with small purchasing power inside the camp without allowing Reichsmark currency to accumulate in enemy hands or be smuggled out. The perforation — unusual for paper scrip at this scale — served as a basic anti-counterfeiting measure, since PoW inmates with time and materials occasionally attempted to replicate camp currency.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a commercial printer with no particular specialization in security printing, which partly explains why physical perforation rather than engraving was used to authenticate the issue.