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20 Centimes - 62° compagnie
| Issuer | 62e Compagnie de Prisonniers de Guerre |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE --------⸰-------- 62° Compagnie --------⸰-------- 0 Fr. 20 Bon payable au Bureau de la Compagnie Le Commandant de la 62 Compagnie (Translation: Prisoners of war. 62nd Company. Voucher payable at the Company Office. The Commander of the 62nd Company.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed in uniform red with no text, vignette, or additional design elements. |
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French prisoner-of-war camp scrip, issued internally by the 62nd company of prisoners — almost certainly held in Germany — to allow small transactions within the camp economy without access to Reichsmarks. These internal currencies were a widespread workaround under the 1907 Hague Convention, which permitted camp administrators to pay prisoners for labor in camp-issued tokens or notes redeemable only within the compound.
The red paper stock is practical, not decorative — color differentiation prevented inter-company counterfeiting and simplified denomination control by guards and camp accountants. Surviving examples from individual company-level issues are considerably rarer than centrally administered camp currencies.