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10 Heller/10 Filler Somorja; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Somorja (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Somorja) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 K.U.K.KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER SOMORJA ZEHN HELLER DIESER BETRAG IST EIN ANTEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO ERLIEGENDEN GUTHABENS DER KRIEGSGEFANGENEN. SOMORJA, 15. JÄNNER 1916. GÜLTIG NUR INNERHALB KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS LAGERKOMMANDANT KASSAKOMMISSIONSMITGLIED (Translation: Imperial and Royal prisoner of war camp Somorja. Ten heller. This amount is a portion of the prisoners' credit held by the camp command. Somorja, January 15, 1916. Valid only inside the prisoner of war camp. Camp commandant. Cash commission member.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 CS. ÉS K. HADIFOGOLY-TABOR SOMORJA TIZ FILLÉR EZ ÖSSZEG EGY RÉSZÉT KÉPEZI A HADIFOGLYOK RÉSZÉRŐL A TÁBORPARANCSNOKSÁGNÁL LETÉTBE HELYEZETT VAGYONNAK. SOMORJA, 1916. JANUÁR 15 CSAKIS A FOGOLYTÁBORBAN ÉRVÉNYES TÁBOR PARANCSNOK PÉNZTÁRBIZOTTSÁGI TAG. (Translation: Imperial and Royal prisoner of war camp Somorja. Ten fillers. This amount is a portion of the prisoners' credit held by the camp command. Somorja, January 15, 1916. Valid only inside the prisoner of war camp. Camp commandant. Cash commission member.) |
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Somorja (today Šamorín, Slovakia) housed one of the many Austro-Hungarian prisoner of war camps that issued their own internal scrip during the First World War when small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The K.u.K. military administration solved the problem pragmatically: camp commandants were authorized to print their own Lagergeld, denominated in the same Heller/Filler dual-language units as the imperial coinage it replaced — Heller for the Austrian half of the monarchy, Filler for the Hungarian.
The dual denomination is the telling detail here. Somorja sat in the Kingdom of Hungary, which explains the Filler designation appearing alongside Heller rather than in place of it.