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20 Heller Deutsch-Gabel; PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando Deutsch-Gabel |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#1351 |
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| Obverse lettering | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager-Kommando 20 Zwanzig Heller Deutsch-Gabel (Translation: Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Command. Twenty heller.) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark ink on a dense red guilloche lattice underprint covering the entire surface. The Imperial Austro-Hungarian coat of arms appears in colour at upper centre. A central oval cartouche in scrollwork carries the disclaimer text in Fraktur, with the denomination '20 HELLER' repeated in large figures at all four corners. |
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Deutsch-Gabel — now Jablonné v Podještědí in the Czech Republic — hosted one of the many Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camps that issued their own internal currency during the First World War. These camp Heller notes were a deliberate administrative tool: by restricting prisoners to a closed monetary system, the K.u.K. authorities prevented them from accumulating Austro-Hungarian crowns that could fund escape attempts or bribe guards.
Campbell's coverage of this series is thin, and surviving examples from Deutsch-Gabel are genuinely uncommon — the camp's relatively small capacity and the ephemeral nature of the paper itself account for that.