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1 Pfennig - Oberhausen PoW Camp Hugo Colliery
| Issuer | Hugo Colliery Prisoner of War Camp, Oberhausen |
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| Currency | Papiermark (1914-1923) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on green paper, the obverse presents a simple typeset layout enclosed within a dashed rectangular border. The denomination "1 Pfg." is printed in bold black letterpress at centre, flanked on either side by two stylised cyan-blue monogram or colliery mark vignettes serving as decorative counterfoils. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain green paper with no printed design or lettering, showing only faint offset impressions from the obverse through the thin paper stock. |
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Hugo Colliery in Oberhausen was a working coal mine that employed prisoner-of-war labor during the First World War — a practice widespread across German heavy industry once the labor shortage became acute after 1915. Camp scrip at this scale, denominated in single Pfennig, was almost certainly intended for canteen use rather than wage settlement, which would have been handled at higher denominations.
Oberhausen mining camp issues are among the least documented of the German PoW Lagergeld series. Survival rate is low partly because nobody outside the camp had reason to preserve them.