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10 Pfennigs Helmstedt; POW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenen-Lager Helmstedt |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Currency | Papiermark (1914-1923) |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper stock bearing a serial number in a ruled box at top, printed in blackletter script throughout. Two blocks of regulatory text are separated by a double rule, with no vignette or decorative elements. |
| Reverse lettering | Scheine, bei denen die Nummer ganz oder teil- weise fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst. Dieses Lagergeld gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel innerhalb des Lagers. — Zivil- und Militär- personen wird das Geld nicht umgewechselt. (Translation: Notes on which the number is completely or partially missing will not be redeemed. This camp money is only valid as a means of payment inside the camp. — Civil and military personnel may not exchange this money.) |
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Helmstedt was one of several German officer prisoner-of-war camps that issued its own internal scrip during the First World War — a practical response to the problem of allowing captive officers, who under the Hague Conventions of 1907 could not be compelled to work, to make canteen purchases without handling Reichsmark currency that might facilitate escape. Officer camps issued their own denominations independently, which is why Helmstedt scrip cannot be exchanged with, say, Quedlinburg or Dülmen issues of the same period.
Paper POW Lagergeld from this era survives in wildly uneven quantities depending on how aggressively individual camp administrations recalled and destroyed notes at the armistice.