1 Pfennig Celle; PoW Camp Cellelager

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.