10 Heller Aschach PoW camp

Aschach an der Donau was one of the larger Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, holding primarily Russian and Italian prisoners. Camp scrip of this type was a deliberate administrative tool — prisoners could not spend it outside the wire, which simplified supply management and prevented cash from leaking into local civilian hands. Haas & Comp. in Steyr produced these notes for several K.u.k. camp installations in Upper Austria, and their output was functional rather than elaborate.

Surviving examples are uncommon; most camp currencies were either spent into destruction or destroyed by camp authorities at war's end.