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10 Mark Torgau; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kommandantur des Offizier-Gefangenenlagers Torgau |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on plain paper with a central horizontal band of red guilloche underprint. The issuing authority inscription appears in the upper left corner, while the denomination numeral is set in large bold type at the centre of the guilloche band, flanked on each side by the word "Mark". A handwritten violet ink authorisation signature runs across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kommandantur des Offizier-Gefangenenlagers Torgau 10 Mark (Translation: Headquarters of the Torgau officer prisoner of war camp.) |
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Torgau's officer prisoner-of-war camp operated under the 1907 Hague Convention, which obligated detaining powers to pay captured officers their regular salary — in scrip, not Reich currency. This note is the physical mechanism of that obligation: a closed-economy instrument redeemable only within the camp, preventing any outflow of hard currency and ensuring prisoners couldn't fund escape attempts with spendable money.
Officer camps ran their own canteens, and denominations like this 10 Mark piece handled meaningful transactions — wine, tobacco, books. The Kommandantur issued these locally; no commercial printer was involved.