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| Emittent | Dépôt d'Officiers Prisonniers de Guerre de Montoire |
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| Jahr | 1917 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | 10 Fr. D.O. P.G. MONT OIRE . sur le Loir 19 17 . E.G..16 (Translation: 10 francs. Depot of officers prisoner of war Montoire sur-le Loire.) |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain paper reverse applied with two handstamps in blue-black and violet. The principal circular handstamp at upper centre reads "DÉPÔT D'OFFICIERS PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE - MONTOIRE (L. & C.)" around the circumference, enclosing "D O / LE COMMANDANT / P G" with a small fasces vignette at centre. A second, smaller circular violet handstamp appears at lower left, accompanied by the typeset legend "LE COMPTABLE" in bold capitals to its right. |
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Montoire-sur-le-Loir was one of several French towns that hosted depots for German officer prisoners during the First World War, and the officers interned there were permitted — under a loosely administered system — to issue their own camp scrip for use within the depot. These notes circulated exclusively among prisoners and were effectively self-guaranteed by the detaining community itself, a peculiar arrangement with no central banking oversight whatsoever.
Officer POW camps operated on different rules from enlisted men's camps; the Hague Conventions afforded officers considerably more latitude, including the maintenance of a quasi-monetary economy. Paper scrip from these depots survives in far smaller quantities than equivalent municipal emergency issues from the same period.