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1 Pfennig Strasbourg; Rumanenkommando XIII
| Issuer | Rumänenkommando XIII (Romanian POW Command XIII, Strasbourg) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise blank blue cardboard, bearing a single large circular violet handstamp applied at centre. The stamp contains a central heraldic eagle motif and the legend of the Royal Prussian Landsturm Guard Company running around the circumference. |
| Reverse lettering | KÖNIGL. PREUSSISCHE LANDST. BEWACH-KOMP. II. 39. (Translation: Royal Prussian Landsturm Guard Company II. 39.) |
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Rumänenlager scrip occupies a peculiar corner of World War I notgeld — these were not municipal emergency issues but prisoner-of-war camp tokens, printed by or for the German military command overseeing Romanian prisoners held in the Strasbourg area. The XIII designation identifies the army corps district, not a specific camp, meaning this pfennig circulated within a system of controlled labor and internment rather than any civilian economy.
Blue cardboard construction was typical of the lower denominations in this camp scrip family, partly for quick visual denomination sorting, partly because proper printing stock was scarce by mid-war. Campbell 3408 places this firmly within the Strasbourg-area Romanian prisoner series.