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10 Korona POW Camp; Somorja
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Somorja (Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor Somorja) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Krone (1892-1918) |
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| Reverse description | Left panel mirrors the obverse layout with a guilloche vignette centred on the numeral 10 and the inscription GÜLTIG NUR INNERHALB DES KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS in a cartouche below. The right panel repeats the Austro-Hungarian arms flanked by the series prefix DD and serial number, with the bold legend ZEHN KRONEN, a German-language deposit text, the date Somorja, 15 Jänner 1916, the camp title K.u.K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER SOMORJA, and two manuscript signatures with printed role titles. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 ZEHN KRONEN DIESER BETRAG IST EIN ANTEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO ERLIEGENDEN GUTHABENS DER KRIEGSGEFANGENEN. SOMORJA, 15 JÄNNER 1916 K.u.K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER SOMORJA LAGERKOMMANDANT KASSAKOMMISSIONSMITGLIED GÜLTIG NUR INNERHALB DES KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS |
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Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camp scrip occupies a specific and underappreciated corner of WWI notaphily. The Somorja camp — located in present-day Šamorín, Slovakia, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary — issued internal currency to prevent POWs from accumulating spendable money that could fund escape attempts or be passed to the local population. The dual-language issuer name reflects the K.u.K. administrative reality: German for the imperial military bureaucracy, Hungarian for the local civilian authority.
Camp scrip from this period survives in wildly uneven quantities. Somorja issues are genuinely scarce.