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20 Centimes - Camp de Coëtquidan
| Issuer | Dépôts de Prisonniers de Guerre de la 10e Région - Camp de Coëtquidan |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain yellow-buff paper, the face carries the camp's full institutional title at top, with the denomination rendered in words at centre. A circular violet administrative handstamp at left bears the camp name and military district designation; below, the printed titles of the Commandant and the Comptable are each accompanied by a handwritten signature, while a manuscript serial number appears at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | DÉPOTS DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE de la 10e Région Vingt centimes Le Commandant, Le Comptable, N° |
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Camp de Coëtquidan, in Brittany's Morbihan department, held German prisoners of war during the First World War, and like dozens of French internment sites it developed its own internal scrip to manage canteen transactions without introducing official currency into the camp economy. The 10th Military Region administered a network of such camps, and each issued notes under its own authority — which is why denominations and designs vary considerably even between neighboring sites.
These fractional centimes notes existed purely because prisoners were paid nominal wages for labor, and coins were considered a security risk.