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10 Reichsmark Lagergeld
| Issuer | Oberkommando der Wehrmacht |
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| Year | 1939-1944 |
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| Value | 10 Marks (10 RM) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on plain paper with a large solid red triangle as central underprint. The Wehrmacht eagle clutching a swastika wreath appears as a vignette at lower left. A decorative border frames the entire face, with the serial number printed in black at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, leaving the plain paper stock exposed with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Lagergeld — literally "camp money" — was issued by the Wehrmacht high command for use in prisoner-of-war camps, segregating Allied prisoners from the regular German wartime economy. This 10 Reichsmark denomination sits at the top of the series, a figure large enough that few POWs would have had cause to accumulate it through the limited canteen transactions these notes were designed to facilitate. It circulated in a closed system by design.
The Camb#3757 reference places this within the standard Wehrmacht-issue series used across multiple camp systems from the opening of the war through 1944. Forgeries by prisoners are documented for lower denominations; the 10 RM was rarely worth the risk.