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10 Centimes - Camp de Coëtquidan
| Issuer | Dépots de Prisonniers de Guerre de la 10e Région |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey paper voucher printed in black letterpress. The issuing authority title appears at the top in bold capitals, with the denomination 'Dix centimes' in large bold type at centre. A circular violet handstamp of the camp is applied to the left, with manuscript signatures of the Commandant and the Comptable below their respective printed titles, alongside a handwritten serial number prefixed by 'N°'. |
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| Obverse lettering | DÉPOTS DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE de la 10e Région ------------ Dix centimes Le Commandant, Le Comptable, N° |
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Camp de Coëtquidan, in the Breton moorland of Guer, was a French military facility repurposed during the First World War to hold German prisoners of war. The 10e Région designation places this note within France's wartime regional military administration, which managed POW camps across its jurisdiction and issued scrip to keep prisoner transactions internal — preventing any leakage of French currency into camp circulation or, theoretically, into escape funds.
These camp issues were produced with minimal infrastructure, and the 10 centimes denomination served the smallest daily exchanges — canteen purchases, tobacco, basic sundries. Paper scrip at this value was essentially disposable, which is precisely why survivors are uncommon.