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2 Kronen Brunn am Gebirge; Civilian Islands
| Issuer | K. u. k. Gewerbelager Brunn am Gebirge (Imperial and Royal Camp Warehouse Brunn am Gebirge) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#1520 |
| Obverse description | Printed entirely in orange on fibrous cream paper, the note is divided by an ornate geometric border of interlocking diamond and square guilloche motifs into a narrow left panel and a wider main body. The left panel carries the denomination numeral "2" flanked by the German legend KRONEN and its Cyrillic equivalent КОРОНЫ, with a serial number below; the main field bears the Imperial Austrian arms vignette at upper centre above the issuing authority name, the voucher denomination in large display letterpress type, conditions of use, and a depositary clause in smaller text. Two facsimile signatures with titles appear at the foot of the main panel. |
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| Signature(s) | Puskás and Popletsan |
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Brunn am Gebirge, a small industrial town south of Vienna, hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian military's Gewerbelager — essentially a captive-labor manufacturing depot where civilian internees produced goods for the war economy. The scrip issued there circulated only within the camp itself, functioning as a closed-currency system that prevented internees from accumulating Austrian crowns redeemable outside the wire.
The "Civilian Islands" classification in Campbell reflects the broader internment geography of the Habsburg war state, which confined suspect populations — Serbs, Ruthenes, Italians — in dozens of such installations from 1914 onward. Two signatories, Puskás and Popletsan, almost certainly represent camp administration rather than any banking authority.