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2 Mark Plassenburg; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K. Offiziersgefangenenlager Plassenburg (Imperial Officers' Prisoner of War Camp, Plassenburg) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in black on a red decorative underprint with an ornate floral and scrollwork border enclosing the full face. A central oval guilloche carries the large numeral '2' in red, flanked left and right by the bold black inscription 'ZWEI MARK'; the camp authority title appears at the top, with 'GUT FÜR' above the central vignette. Two small Imperial German eagles appear in the lower corners, and the disclaimer 'Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel' is printed below the camp name 'Plassenburg.' |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on a dense red dash-pattern underprint that covers the entire field. A central rectangular panel with ornate acanthus-scroll borders above and below contains the redemption text in black. Two Imperial German eagles appear in white reserve panels at the upper centre, with two further eagle vignettes in red at the lower centre flanking a black-overprinted serial-number panel. Denomination numerals '2' and the word 'MARK' appear in each corner, with additional inscriptions running vertically along the left and right margins. The printer's imprint 'Alexander Wiede Chemnitz' appears at the foot. |
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Plassenburg castle, perched above Kulmbach in northern Bavaria, was repurposed early in the war as an officers' prisoner of war camp — Offizierslager, not a common enlisted facility. Officer prisoners were entitled by the Hague Conventions to certain privileges, including an internal scrip economy, which is why this note exists at all. Alexander Wiede of Chemnitz was a minor commercial printer with no particular numismatic pedigree; the work is functional rather than refined.
Campbell 3369 is not among the rarer Plassenburg pieces, but the camp series as a whole remains underrepresented in most collections outside Germany.