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1 Pfennig - Oberhausen PoW Camp Hansfield Limestone Quarry
| Issuer | Oberhausen PoW Camp Hansfield Limestone Quarry |
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| Size | 50 x 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-green paper with a fine guilloche underprint. A dashed rectangular border frames the face, with the denomination numeral '1' and abbreviation 'Pfg.' printed in bold black letterpress at centre. Flanking the denomination on both left and right are mirror-image monogram devices in turquoise, likely representing the camp or quarry administration initials. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pfg. |
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Prisoner-of-war camp scrip from German-occupied or German-administered facilities in World War I served a specific administrative function: keeping captive labor paid in currency unusable outside the wire. The Hansfield Limestone Quarry at Oberhausen was a working industrial site, and notes like this were issued as wages to prisoners assigned to quarry labor — a practice that technically complied with the Hague Convention's requirement that prisoners be compensated while simultaneously ensuring no value could leave the facility.
Camp scrip at this scale of denomination is among the most perishable printed material of the war. Few examples survive from quarry operations specifically.