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10 Mark Cassel PoW Camp
| Issuer | Gefangenen-Lager Cassel (Prisoner of War Camp Kassel) |
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| Year | 1915-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on green guilloche underprint with a dense floral and scroll pattern filling the entire field. The denomination "Zehn Mark" appears in a central horizontal banderole with guilloche rosettes to either side, flanked above by the camp inscriptions and below by two small German Imperial eagles in the lower corners. A black typeset serial number is printed at upper centre, with a handstamp applied to the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 GEFANGENEN-LAGER GUT FÜR Zehn Mark CASSEL Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel. (Translation: Prisoner of War Camp. Good for ten mark. Not legal tender.) |
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German prisoner of war camps during the First World War routinely issued their own internal scrip to prevent Allied prisoners from accumulating Reichsmarks that could fund escape attempts. The Cassel camp's notes circulated exclusively within the wire — usable at the canteen, nowhere else. Denominations were deliberately mismatched with standard currency to make them worthless outside the perimeter.
These camp issues were produced under wartime austerity with minimal security printing, which is why no two surviving examples look quite alike in terms of ink density and impression quality.