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2 Mark Dyrotz; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Gefangenen-Lager Dyrotz (Prisoner of War Camp Dyrotz) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Gefangenen-Lager Dyrotz GUTSCHEIN ZWEI 2 MARK Wer diesen Schein nachmacht oder verfälscht oder Fälschungen verausgabt, wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel. (Translation: Dyrotz prisoner of war camp. Voucher. Two marks. Whoever imitates or falsifies this note, or issues counterfeits, will be prosecuted. No legal tender.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 MARK Gutscheine, welche von andern Personen als Kriegsgefangenen zur Zahlung oder Umwechslung vorgelegt werden, werden nicht anerkannt. Es ist verboten, den Kriegsgefangenen für diesen Gutschein bares Geld oder deutsches Papiergeld einzuwechseln. (Translation: Vouchers presented for payment or exchange by persons other than prisoners of war will not be accepted. It is forbidden to exchange these vouchers for cash or German banknotes for prisoners of war.) |
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Dyrotz was a German prisoner of war camp operating in the Brandenburg region during the First World War. Like most German PoW camps of the period, it issued its own internal scrip to control purchasing within the camp economy — a system mandated across the German military detention network from 1914 onward, which is why these notes are so numerous in type yet scarce in high-grade individual examples. Constant handling in confined, rough conditions destroyed most.
Camp scrip of this denomination circulated hard. Few survived.