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1 Pfennig Neuburg; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K. B. Offizier-Gefangenen-Lager Neuburg a. K. (Royal Bavarian Officer Prisoner-of-War Camp Neuburg on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Mark (1873-1923) |
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| Obverse lettering | K. B. Offizier-Gefangenen-Lager Neuburg a. K. Gutschein über einen Pfennig 1 Neuburg a. K., 20. Oktober 1916 J. P. Himmer Augsburg. (Translation: Royal Bavarian Officer Prisoner-of-War Camp Neuburg on the Danube. Voucher for one pfennig. Neuburg on the Danube, October 20, 1916.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Neuburg a. K. Ungültig (Translation: Neuburg on the Danube. Invalid.) |
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Neuburg an der Donau held Allied officers — not enlisted men — under the K. B. designation marking it as a Royal Bavarian facility, one of dozens of German PoW camps that printed their own internal scrip when the wartime coin shortage made ordinary small change functionally unavailable. The 1916 Kleingeldersatz problem was acute: Reichsbank coins were being hoarded or melted, and camps needed a workable means of internal exchange for canteen purchases and minor transactions.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a logical choice — a regional commercial printer close enough to fulfill small institutional orders without the delays of a distant house. At 1 Pfennig, this is the lowest denomination in the camp's scrip series, and such fractional values were typically printed in the largest quantities yet survive least often.