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20 Fillér POW Camp; Dunaszerdahely
| Issuer | Cs. és Kir. Hadifogoly-Tábor Dunaszerdahely (K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Dunaszerdahely) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 20 Fillér (⅕) |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper with a fine wave-pattern guilloche underprint in pale yellow. Denomination numeral '20' appears at each upper corner in bold blue letterpress. The camp title 'CS. ÉS KIR. HADIFOGOLY-TÁBOR / DUNASZERDAHELY' is printed in arched text at the top, with the Hungarian value 'HUSZ FILLÉR' in large bold letters on a solid dark blue panel at centre. Two circular camp validity stamps in blue ink are applied at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a wave-pattern guilloche underprint and a red-printed vignette of a domed building at centre. Denomination numeral '20' at each upper corner; series and serial number printed in a grey panel at top. The German camp title 'K.u.K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER / DUNASZERDAHELY' arches above the central bold blue panel bearing 'ZWANZIG HELLER'. Two circular red camp stamps appear at lower left and right; printer's imprint 'GLOBUS BUDAPEST' at lower right. |
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Dunaszerdahely (today Dunajská Streda, Slovakia) hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's prisoner of war camps during the First World War, and this 20 Fillér note is a product of that system's internal scrip economy. Camp currency was deliberately non-transferable outside the wire — prisoners could earn it through permitted labor and spend it at the camp canteen, with the dual effect of discouraging hoarding of hard currency and giving the administration control over prisoner purchasing power.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, not a security press, which is why camp scrip from this series shows no sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures. The threat was theoretical at best — the notes were worthless beyond the camp gates.