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2 Marks - Güstrow Kriegsgefangenenlager IX A.K.
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Güstrow, IX. Armeekorps |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgefangenen-Lagergeld 1918 Zwei Mark IX. Armekorps (Translation: Prisoner of War Camp Money 1918 Two Marks IX Army Corps) |
| Reverse description | Cream paper with blue guilloche diamond underprint and an outer wavy-line border. Four corner cartouches each bear the numeral '2' above 'Mark' in orange letterpress. The central field carries multi-line Fraktur text setting out the conditions of use, with a serial number printed below in large Gothic numerals. |
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Güstrow's POW camp operated under the IX Army Corps and issued its own internal currency to prevent prisoners from accumulating Reichsmarks usable outside the wire. The 2 Mark denomination sits at the upper end of the Güstrow camp money series, suggesting it was intended for canteen purchases of modest value — tobacco, soap, supplementary food — rather than daily small transactions.
1918 dating places this at the final year of the camp's operation. Repatriation of prisoners following the November armistice was chaotic, and most camp scrip was simply discarded or destroyed in the process, which accounts for the relative scarcity of surviving Güstrow pieces in any grade.