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1 Pfennig Germersheim; PoW Camp
| Issuer | II. Bayerisches Armeekorps (2nd Bavarian Army Corps) |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Small rectangular voucher printed in brown on plain paper. Central vignette shows the Bavarian coat of arms (lozengy shield within a laurel wreath), with the inscription II. BAYRAK arched above and the denomination 1 PFG. flanking the shield at lower left and right. The overall impression is typographic with a simple letterpress format. |
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| Obverse lettering | II. BAYRAK 1 PFG. 1 |
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Germersheim's prisoner-of-war camp operated under the 2nd Bavarian Army Corps during the First World War, and the fractional pfennig denominations issued there reflect a genuine administrative headache: how to handle petty transactions inside a closed camp economy when standard Reichsmark coinage was either withheld or impractical to manage at scale. The 1 Pfennig piece is the lowest denomination in the series, which meant it circulated hardest and survived least.