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10 Kronen/10 Korona Nezsider; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Internierungslager Nezsider (Imperial and Royal Internment Camp Nezsider) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress in black on orange underprint, mirroring the face in layout but with Hungarian-language text throughout. The denomination and camp authority inscriptions are arranged in horizontal registers, and the Imperial coat of arms is again positioned as a vignette at the bottom centre. The note was printed by Globus, Budapest, as indicated in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | CS.és K.POLGÁRI FOGOLYTÁBOR NEZSIDEREN Tiz korona 10 EZEN ÖSSZEG EGY RÉSZÉT KÉPEZI A POLGÁRI FOGLYOK ÁLTAL A TÁBORPARANCSNOKSÁGNÁL ELHELYEZETT LETÉTJÜKNEK NEZSIDER, 1916.JULIUS 1 Táborparancsnok Számvivő főhadnagy CSAKIS A POLGÁRI FOGOLY TÁBORBAN ÉRVÉNYES INDIVISIBILITER AC INSEPARABILITER GLOBUS BUDAPEST (Translation: Imperial and Royal Civil Prisoner of War Camp in Nezsider. Ten crowns. This amount forms part of the deposit placed by the civilian internees with the camp command. Nezsider, July 1, 1916. Camp commander. Accountant Lieutenant. Valid only within the civilian internment camp. Indivisible and inseparable.) |
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Nezsider — known today as Neusiedl am See in Austria — hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's internment camps during the First World War, holding civilian internees rather than prisoners of war in the strict military sense. The distinction mattered: these were largely Slavic and Italian subjects deemed politically unreliable, displaced by the shifting front lines of a collapsing multi-ethnic empire turning on its own population.
The Globus printing house in Budapest produced the camp scrip as a controlled internal currency, preventing internees from accessing the broader wartime economy. Campbell 1616 is among the more documented Nezsider issues, but camp scrip of this type was never meant to survive — redemption and destruction on release or transfer was standard procedure.