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1 Pfennig Lechfeld; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Lechfeld |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Himmer, Augsburg |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgefangenenlager Lechfeld. Gutschein über einen Pfennig. Lager Lechfeld, 15. November 1915 Himmer, Augsburg |
| Reverse description | Plain pink paper reverse showing faint bleed-through of the obverse border and text. A large manuscript authorization signature in ink occupies the center field, applied diagonally across the otherwise unprinted surface. |
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Lechfeld was a German Imperial Army airfield and training base in Bavaria, repurposed early in the war to hold prisoners — primarily French and Russian — as the volume of captives overwhelmed established facilities. Camp scrip of this kind was a practical response to a genuine administrative problem: Reich currency could not be permitted to circulate among prisoners who might use it to bribe guards or fund escapes, so purpose-issued Lagergeld replaced it entirely within the wire.
Himmer in Augsburg was a regional commercial printer with no particular specialization in security documents, which shows. These notes were not designed to resist counterfeiting — they were designed to be cheap and fast.