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10 Heller Sigmundsherberg; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offiziersabteilung Kriegsgefangenenlagers Sigmundsherberg (Officers' Department, Sigmundsherberg Prisoner of War Camp) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the entire face is covered by a dense geometric guilloche underprint of radiating diagonal line patterns. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in bold Gothic numerals at both left and right, with the large central legend 'Zahlmarke der Offiziersabteilung Kriegsgefangenenlagers Sigmundsherberg N.O.' rendered in an ornate script typeface. A small crowned imperial emblem is positioned at the top centre above the main inscription, all enclosed within a plain ruled border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Heller Zahlmarke der Offiziersabteilung Kriegsgefangenenlagers Sigmundsherberg N.O. (Translation: Payment token of the Officers' Department of the prisoner of war camp Sigmundsherberg Lower Austria.) |
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Sigmundsherberg, a large Austro-Hungarian PoW camp in Lower Austria, operated a internal camp currency system during the First World War — a common enough practice, but the officers' compound maintaining its own separate scrip from the enlisted men's issue was a deliberate administrative distinction rooted in the 1907 Hague Convention's requirement that officer prisoners be housed and treated differently from other ranks. This note is the product of that bureaucratic separation.
Campbell 1449 is among the more obscure entries in the PoW emergency issues. Documentation on Sigmundsherberg's internal monetary arrangements is thin, and surviving examples are rarely encountered outside specialist collections.