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10 Mark Plassenburg; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K. Offiziersgefangenenlager Plassenburg |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper with a violet underprint and black letterpress text, enclosed within an ornate floral and foliate border. A central oval guilloche bears the numeral '10' in violet, flanked by the bold inscription 'ZEHN MARK' and surmounted by 'GUT FÜR', with the denomination '10' repeated in each corner. Two small Imperial German eagles appear at the lower centre beneath the guilloche, accompanied by the camp designation 'Plassenburg.' |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with violet underprint and black letterpress text in a border style matching the obverse. Four Imperial German eagles are arranged symmetrically around a central guilloche motif, with '10 MARK' at the head of the note, followed by multi-line redemption and validity conditions in German script. The printer's imprint 'ALEXANDER WIEDE CHEMNITZ' appears at the foot. |
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Plassenburg, the Renaissance fortress above Kulmbach in Bavaria, served as a commissioned officers' prisoner-of-war camp — a Offiziersgefangenenlager — during the First World War. Under the Hague Conventions, officers could not be compelled to work, so the German military instead administered internal camp scrip to control purchasing power and limit the movement of hard currency. This note, printed by Alexander Wiede of Chemnitz, belongs to that system.
Wiede was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, and the scrip reflects that — functional rather than elaborate. Its validity was absolute within the wire and worthless beyond it.