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| Issuer | Sammellager für Ausländer, Stargard in Pommern |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown Notgeld issued for the foreign internment camp (Sammellager für Ausländer) at Stargard in Pommern. A green ribbon banner at the top carries the denomination legend, with the numeral '10' and 'MARK' in brown at either side of centre. The central vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of Stargard, surmounted by a twin-towered city gate, set within foliate mantling. To the left, a validity clause and redemption conditions are printed in Gothic script, while the issue date '1. Mai 1921', the place name, and a manuscript signature of the Lagerdirektor appear to the right. The printer's imprint 'LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT · HARZ' runs along the lower margin below the green foot panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 10M 10 MARK Sammellager für Ausländer = STARGARD IN POMMERN |
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The Sammellager für Ausländer — literally "collection camp for foreigners" — at Stargard in Pommern was one of several internment and transit facilities operating in Germany in the immediate postwar years, processing displaced persons, stateless individuals, and foreign nationals caught in the administrative chaos following the collapse of the Reich and the Versailles redrawing of borders. Camp scrip of this type was issued to restrict detainees to internal exchange, preventing contact with the external German economy.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a minor regional printer responsible for several emergency and institutional issues from this period. The DeNG reference places this among a numbered series of six, suggesting the camp operated a structured denomination range rather than issuing ad hoc.