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10 Korona POW Camp; Zalaegerszeg
| Issuer | Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor Zalaegerszeg (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp, Zalaegerszeg) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 10 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress on white paper with ornate floral guilloche border. Four large numeral '10' roundels at corners frame a central oval cartouche bearing the denomination 'Tiz korona' in bold script, with camp authority text above and date below. The combined Austro-Hungarian arms with motto ribbons 'INDIVISIBILITER' and 'INSEPARABILITER' appear at foot, flanked by three facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Orange and black letterpress on white paper, identical format to the obverse with ornate floral guilloche border and four corner '10' roundels. The central oval cartouche carries the German denomination 'Zehn Kronen' with German text above and date below; a Cyrillic underprint reads 'ДЕСЯТЬ КОРОН' in red flanking the central text. The Austro-Hungarian arms appear at foot with motto ribbons, three facsimile signatures, and an applied circular camp commandant's seal in violet. |
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Zalaegerszeg held one of the larger Austro-Hungarian POW camps during the First World War, processing primarily Russian and Italian prisoners. Camp scrip of this type was a deliberate policy instrument — by issuing an internal currency redeemable only within the camp, the administration prevented prisoners from accumulating spendable money that could fund escape attempts or black-market dealings with local civilians.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, not a specialist security press, and these notes were produced as a practical administrative measure rather than a formal monetary emission. The "Cs. és K." designation — Császári és Királyi, Imperial and Royal — reflects the dual Austro-Hungarian bureaucratic apparatus that governed even camp-level logistics.