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20 Fillér POW Camp; Zalaegerszeg
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Zalaegerszeg-Tábor |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 20 Fillér (⅕) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark grey-green on a pale yellow-green ground, the voucher is framed by an ornate letterpress border with dense foliate scrollwork and four large numeral medallions reading '20' at each corner. At centre, the denomination 'Husz fillér' is set in bold display type, beneath the issuing authority 'Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor / ZALAEGERSZEG-TÁBOR'. Below the denomination text, three manuscript facsimile signatures appear above their respective role designations — Letétkezelő Tiszt., Táborparancsnok., and Számvivőtiszt. — flanking the Austro-Hungarian imperial coat of arms with the motto 'INDIVISIBILITER · INSEPARABILITER'. The printer's imprint '"Globus" Budapest.' appears at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Giltig Nur Innerhalb Des Kriegsgefangenen- Lagers. K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager ZALAEGERSZEG-TÁBOR Zwanzig Heller Двадцать · ГЕЛЛЕРОВЪ Dieser Betrag Ist Ein Anteil Des Beim Lagerkommando Erliegenden Guthabens Der Kriegsgefangenen Zalaegerszeg, 15. August 1916. "Globus" Budapest. |
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Zalaegerszeg held one of the larger Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camps on Hungarian soil, processing predominantly Russian and Romanian captives through the middle war years. Camp scrip like this 20 Fillér note was introduced partly to prevent hard currency from reaching the civilian economy and partly to control what prisoners could purchase at the canteen — a policy applied across K.u.K. camp administrations from roughly 1915 onward.
Globus was a commercial Budapest printing house, not a security printer, and the production quality reflects that. Camp Lagergeld of this type is frequently found with handling damage, since the paper was cheap and the denominations small enough to be used daily.