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1 Pfennig Göttingen; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Göttingen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Kriegsgefangenenlager GÖTTINGEN Ein Pfennig Göttingen, im Dezember 1917. Dieses Lagergeld gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel im Lager Einlösung erfolgt nur durch das Gefangenenlager Göttingen (Translation: Göttingen prisoner of war camp. One pfennig. Göttingen, December 1917. This camp currency is valid only as payment within the camp. Redemption is only possible through the Göttingen prisoner of war camp.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, presenting plain cream-coloured paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation. |
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Göttingen's prisoner-of-war camp was one of dozens of German military detention facilities that resorted to internal camp scrip during the First World War, when the wartime coin shortage — caused by the hoarding and melting of copper and nickel — made conventional small change functionally impossible to circulate. The Reichsbank's response was slow, and local authorities, military camps among them, filled the gap themselves.
J. C. König & Ebhardt, the Hannover firm that printed this note, was primarily a stationer and bookbinder by trade — not a specialist security printer. That background shows in the relatively modest production values typical of camp issues, though the firm's local proximity to Göttingen made it a practical choice.
Campbell 3019 places this within a broader Göttingen camp series, with denominations apparently spanning at least several values.