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10 Heller Deutsch-Gabel; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando Deutsch-Gabel |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on an orange-yellow scrollwork underprint with an ornate foliate border. The denomination numeral '10' appears in orange at left and right, with the large Gothic-script legend 'Zehn Heller' across the centre over an elaborate acanthus guilloche vignette enclosing a circular embossed stamp. Series letter and serial number are printed in a ruled box at upper centre. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on a dense geometric orange-yellow guilloche underprint covering the entire field, with denomination numerals '10 HELLER' at all four corners. The Imperial Austro-Hungarian coat of arms appears as a small vignette at upper centre. A central acanthus cartouche encloses the disclaimer text 'Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel', with the main redemption clause set in a ruled Gothic-script text block above. |
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Deutsch-Gabel (now Německé Jablonné, Czech Republic) hosted one of the many Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camps that issued their own internal scrip during the First World War. These Lagergeld notes were a deliberate administrative tool — by creating a closed monetary system, camp authorities prevented prisoners from accumulating currency usable outside the wire. The K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando issued denominations in Heller rather than Kronen, keeping individual note values too small for meaningful external use.
Campbell's listing at 1350 places this among hundreds of similar camp issues, most of which survive only in tiny quantities — not because they were rare in circulation, but because few bothered to preserve what was essentially disposable internal currency.