20 Heller Harth bei Amstetten; PoW Camp

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.