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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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| Obverse lettering | K.u.K. INTERNIERUNGSLAGER in NEZSIDER Zehn Kronen 10 DIESER BETRAG BILDET EINEN TEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO DEPONIERTEN GUTHABENS DER INTERNIERTEN NEZSIDER, 1.JULI 1916 Lagerkommandant Liqu: Rechnungsführer GILTIG NUR INNERHALB DES INTERNIERUNGS-LAGERS INDIVISIBILITER AC INSEPARABILITER GLOBUS BUDAPEST (Translation: Imperial and Royal Internment Camp in Nezsider. Ten crowns. This amount forms part of the balance deposited with the camp command by the internees. Nezsider, July 1, 1916. Camp commander. Liquidator Accountant. Valid only within the internment camp. Indivisible and inseparable.) |
| 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. |
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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.