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20 Heller Harth bei Amstetten; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offiziersabteilung des Kriegsgefangenenlagers Harth bei Amstetten |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller ZAHLMARKE DER OFFIZIERSABTEILUNG DES KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGERS HARTH BEI AMSTETTEN. (Translation: 20 Heller payment token of the officers' department of the prisoner of war camp Harth near Amstetten.) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression in mirror image, with the double-headed eagle vignette and denomination cartouches faintly visible through the stock. |
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Harth bei Amstetten was one of Austria-Hungary's prisoner-of-war camp currency systems, issuing scrip specifically for use within the officers' compound — a deliberate administrative separation from enlisted prisoner money that was common in the Dual Monarchy's camp structure. The Offiziersabteilung designation matters: officer POWs under the Hague Conventions were entitled to pay and could not be compelled to labor, so internal scrip served a genuine canteen economy rather than a wage-substitute function.
Campbell 1384 is the only recorded denomination catalogued for this issuer, which may reflect incomplete survival rather than a single-denomination issue.