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20 Heller/20 Filler Nagymegyer; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Nagymegyer (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Nagymegyer) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on yellow underprint. The Austro-Hungarian Empire coat of arms is positioned at top centre, above bilingual denomination and camp text in German. The note carries a validity restriction clause and is dated 1 July 1916, with spaces for the signatures of the Economic Officer, Camp Commander, and Deposit Manager. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on yellow underprint. The Austro-Hungarian Empire coat of arms is centred at the top, above the equivalent Hungarian-language text. The printer's imprint 'GLOBUS BUDAPEST' appears at the lower portion of the note, with the date 1 July 1916 and signature lines for the Economic Officer, Camp Commander, and Deposit Manager. |
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Nagymegyer, in present-day Slovakia, housed one of the Austro-Hungarian military's network of prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War. The K.u.K. administration issued these fractional camp notes to control internal purchasing power — preventing prisoners from accumulating currency usable outside the wire. The dual denomination (Heller for Austrian reckoning, Filler for Hungarian) reflects the empire's awkward monetary union, where both terms described the same hundredth-of-a-Krone unit depending on which half of the k.u.k. apparatus was doing the paperwork.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, not a security press — which shows in the relatively simple execution typical of the lower-denomination camp scrip series.