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1 Pfennig Stuttgart; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager I Stuttgart |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#3534 |
| Obverse description | Plain beige ground with a fine guilloche underprint at centre. A decorative letterpress border frames the note, with circular corner medallions each bearing the numeral '1'. The heading 'Kriegsgefangenenlager I STUTTGART' is printed in bold Gothic script above the redemption text and the large denomination legend 'EIN PFENNIG', dated Stuttgart, 1. September 1915. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing a mirror bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression on white paper stock, with the decorative border frame and circular corner medallions visible in reverse. The printer's imprint 'C. NAUMANN'S DRUCKEREI FRANKFURT A. M.' appears in mirrored text at the foot. |
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Stuttgart's prisoner of war camp scrip from 1915 sits in a category of German emergency currency that is frequently misunderstood. These Lagergeld notes were not charity tokens — their purpose was to control what prisoners could acquire and to prevent usable German currency from circulating among a captive enemy population. The 1 Pfennig denomination is the lowest in the Stuttgart series, which means it was handled constantly and survived poorly.
C. Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt produced several PoW camp series during the war years, which accounts for the family resemblance across geographically separate issues.