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10 Kronen/10 Korona Nagymegyer; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Nagymegyer (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Nagymegyer) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 KRUNA 10 KPYHA K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Nagymegyer Zehn kronen welcher Betrag einen Teil des beim Lagerkommando erliegenden Gutha-bens der Kriegsgefangenen bildet. GÜLTIG NUR INNERHALB DES KRIEDSGEFANGENENLAGERS NAGYMEGYER, 1. JULI 1916. PROVIANTOFFIZIER LAGERKOMMANDANT DEPOSITENVERWALTER DIE NACHAHMUNG DER LAGERSCHEINE WIRD MILITARSTRAFRECHTLICH VERFOLGT (Translation: 10 crowns. Imperial and Royal prisoner of war camp Nagymegyer. Ten krone which amount forms part of the assets deposited by the prisoners of war with the camp command. Valid only in the prisoner of war camp. Nagymegyer, 1916 July 1. Economic Officer / Camp Commander / Deposit Manager. Forgery of camp notes is punished by military criminal law.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 KRUNA 10 KPYHA Cs.es kir hadifogolytábor Nagymegyer Tiz korona mely összeg a hadifoglyok részéről a táborparancsnokságnál letétbe helyezett vagyonnak egy részét képezi CSAKIS A HADIFOGOLY-TÁBORBAN ÉRVÉNYE NAGYMEGYER, 1916.JÚLIUS 1 GAZDÁSZATI TISZT TÁBORPARANCSNOK A TABORI ERTEKJEGYEK UTANZASA KATONAI BUNTETOJOGILAG BUNTETTETIK GLOBUS BUDAPEST LETÉTKEZELŐ (Translation: 10 crowns. Imperial and Royal prisoner of war camp Nagymegyer. Ten korona which amount forms part of the assets deposited by the prisoners of war with the camp command. Valid only in the prisoner of war camp. Nagymegyer, 1916 July 1. Economic Officer / Camp Commander / Deposit Manager. Forgery of camp notes is punished by military criminal law.) |
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Nagymegyer (now Hurbanovo, Slovakia) hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's larger internment facilities during the First World War, and like many K.u.K. prisoner of war camps, it issued its own internal currency to prevent coinage from leaking out of the camp economy. These Lagergeld notes had no value beyond the wire — they could not be exchanged at civilian banks and were surrendered or destroyed upon a prisoner's release or transfer.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, not a security printing house, which shows in the relatively modest production quality of the series. The 10 Kronen/10 Korona bilingual denomination reflects the dual official nomenclature of the empire itself.