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10 Kronen Marchtrenk; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Marchtrenk (Prisoner of War Camp Marchtrenk) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gültig nur für den Geldverkehr der Kriegsgefangenen innerhalb des Kriegsgefangenenlagers Marchtrenk 10 Kronen November 1917 Lagerkommandant Depositen-Verwalter (Translation: Voucher. Valid only for the monetary transactions of prisoners of war within the prisoner of war camp Marchtrenk. Camp commandant. Deposit administrator.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Gültig nur für den Geldverkehr der Kriegsgefangenen innerhalb des Kriegsgefangenenlagers Marchtrenk 10 Kronen November 1917 Lagerkommandant Depositen-Verwalter (Translation: Voucher. Valid only for the monetary transactions of prisoners of war within the prisoner of war camp Marchtrenk. Camp commandant. Deposit administrator.) |
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Marchtrenk, in Upper Austria, operated as a large Austro-Hungarian prisoner of war camp during the First World War, holding primarily Russian and Italian captives. Internal camp currencies of this type were issued to control purchasing within the camp economy — prisoners received scrip in lieu of wages for labor details, and it could only be spent at the camp canteen, preventing savings from funding escape attempts or black-market dealings with guards.
The 1917 date places this squarely in the period of peak camp population pressure on the Austro-Hungarian system. Most camp scrip was destroyed at demobilization; survivor examples almost always come from former prisoners who carried them out as mementos.