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1 Pfennig Saarbrücken, PoW Camp
| Issuer | 10. Landstrum-Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon Magdeburg IV/28 |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10. LANDSTRM.-JNFTR.-ERS.-BATLN. MAGDEBURG IV/28 1 PFENNIG 1 IN SAARBRÜCKEN NUR GEFANGENENGELD |
| Reverse description | Essentially identical in design to the obverse, printed in a darker ink with a slightly more pronounced guilloche background. The same symmetrical arrangement of circular rosettes with the numeral '1', the central oval cartouche inscribed 'Pfennig', the curved top banner with the unit designation, and the two-line lower legend are all repeated, confirming the note's single-sided typographic printing applied uniformly to both faces. |
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Prisoner of war camp money issued by Landsturm infantry replacement battalions occupies one of the more legally ambiguous corners of German WWI notgeld — these units were responsible for guarding PoW labor details, and the scrip they issued was a mechanism for controlling canteen purchases among prisoners rather than a circulating currency in any conventional sense. The issuing battalion, IV/28, was a Magdeburg-district home defense unit, not a front formation.
Saarbrücken camp issues from this series are genuinely scarce in collector holdings. Most were redeemed or simply discarded at war's end.