2 Kronen Aschach PoW Camp

Aschach an der Donau was an Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camp on the south bank of the Danube in Upper Austria, and like most K.u.k. facilities of its size, it issued its own internal scrip to prevent standard currency from circulating among prisoners who might use it to fund escape attempts or bribe guards. The camp's notes were printed by Haas & Comp. in nearby Steyr — a practical choice geographically, though Haas was primarily a commercial job printer rather than a security specialist, which shows in the relatively simple execution.

Campbell's listing at 1317 places this within a well-documented class of Austrian camp issues, but Aschach examples surface infrequently enough to suggest limited original print runs or high attrition during post-war destruction of camp materials.