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10 Pfennig 19th English Commando
| Issuer | Arbeits-Bataillon Nr. 1 / Kriegsgefangene (Labour Battalion No. 1 / Prisoners of War) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Pf. Lager-Geld des Engländer Kommandos XIX WERT: 10 Pfennig 10Pfg. Arbeits-Bataillon Nr. 1 / Kriegsgefangene (Translation: Camp money of the English Commando XIX. Value 10 pfennig. Labour Battalion No. 1 / Prisoners of War) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned red paper with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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Prisoner of war camp scrip from the First World War occupies a narrow and genuinely odd corner of notaphily. This piece was issued by a labour battalion using POW labor — a category of camp currency that sits uncomfortably between administrative record-keeping and coerced economic control. The "19th English Commando" designation in the name almost certainly refers to a specific prisoner group or work detail rather than any formal British military unit designation, suggesting the scrip was issued to track labour credits or canteen entitlements within that detachment.
Campbell 2943 places it firmly in the German WWI Lagergeld classification. Red paper was a common colour-coding device across camp scrip series to distinguish denominations or prisoner nationalities.