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2 Krone
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Hajmáskér (POW Camp Hajmáskér) |
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| Year | 1914-1916 |
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| Value | 2 Crowns (2 Kronen) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed voucher on grey fibrous paper, enclosed within a single rectangular border in red-violet ink. The denomination numeral "2" appears at left with the trilingual value inscription to its right, and a series/number box in the upper-right corner. Validity inscriptions in German and Russian are set in two columns across the lower half, above two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on coarse grey fibrous paper stock, showing no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Hajmáskér was one of the largest Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camps, holding primarily Russian and Serbian captives taken in the opening campaigns of the war. These camp scrip issues were an administrative necessity — the Habsburg military needed a way to let prisoners purchase canteen goods without allowing them access to circulating Austro-Hungarian crowns, which could fund escape attempts.
The Krone-denominated scrip was valid only within the camp perimeter and worthless outside it. That was the point.