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20 Mark IX Armekorps
| Issuer | IX. Armekorps (German Army Corps) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and red letterpress on a green guilloche underprint, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of alternating black and red triangles in a continuous zigzag arrangement. The denomination 'Zwanzig Mark' is set in large Gothic Fraktur script at centre, with 'IX. Armekorps' below and the legend 'Kriegsgefangenen-Lagergeld' together with the year '1918' above. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Mark Dies Lagergeld hat nur innerhalb des Lagers Gültigkeit. Beim Derlassen des Lagers wird der Schein gegen Bargeld eingewechselt, oder der Betrag dem Guthaben des Inhabers zuge-schrieben. Zivilpersonen und deutschen Militär-personen wird das Lagergeld nicht gegen Bargeld eingewechselt. - Ausnahmen bedürfen der vor-herigen Zustimmung des Lagerkommandanteu. (Translation: This camp money is only valid inside the camp. When leaving the camp, the note is exchanged for cash, or the amount is credited to the holder's balance. Camp money is not exchanged for cash for civilians and German military personnel. Exceptions require the prior consent of the camp commander.) |
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IX. Armekorps was one of several German Army Corps-level commands that issued emergency field currency in the final year of the war, when conventional military pay and supply chains had badly degraded. These Armekorps notes were not official Reichsbank instruments — they circulated within specific operational zones as internal scrip, backed by nothing more than the issuing command's authority.
The thick, dimpled paper is characteristic of wartime substitute stock, produced as quality materials were increasingly diverted or simply unavailable. Cambridge 2624 is one of the scarcer Corps-level issues; documentation on exact quantities printed and redemption outcomes remains fragmentary, as many records were lost in the chaos of the November 1918 armistice and subsequent demobilization.