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2 Korona POW Camp; Dunaszerdahely
| Issuer | Cs. és Kir. Hadifogoly-Tábor Dunaszerdahely (K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Dunaszerdahely) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 2 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tan crosshatch guilloche underprint on cream paper. Central dark blue panel carries the denomination KÉT KORONA in large white letters. Camp name CS. ÉS KIR. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR / DUNASZERDAHELY printed above; date DUNASZERDAHELY, 1916 JANUÁR 15. below. Two circular camp validation stamps flank two manuscript signatures with printed titles TÁBORPARANCSNOK and SZÁMVIVŐFŐHADNAGY. |
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| Reverse lettering | K.U.K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER DUNASZERDAHELY 2 ZWEI KRONEN 2 WELCHER BETRAG EINEN TEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO ERLIEGENDEN GUTHABENS DER KRIEGSGEFANGENEN BILDET. DUNASZERDAHELY, 15. JÄNNER 1916. SERIE No LAGERKOMMANDANT OBERLEUTNANTRECHNUNGSFÜHRER INNERHALB DES KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS GÜLTIG GLOBUS BUDAPEST |
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Dunaszerdahely (today Dunajská Streda, Slovakia) housed one of the Austro-Hungarian empire's inland prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, and like many such installations it issued its own internal currency to prevent prisoners from acquiring Austrian crowns usable outside the wire. These camp notes circulated only within the enclosure — they were deliberately worthless beyond it.
The Globus printing house in Budapest produced a number of these Lagergeld issues for various K.u.K. camps, which accounts for a consistency of paper and typographic quality across what were otherwise ad hoc monetary arrangements. This 2 Korona denomination sits at the mid-range of the camp's issued values.