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20 Pfennigs Eglosheim; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenen-Lager Eglosheim |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed on violet paper in black letterpress throughout, the voucher bears the camp designation 'Kriegsgefangenen-Lager Eglosheim' at the top, with the denomination '20 Pfennig' in large bold type at centre. Below, the words 'Lagergeld' and the validity clause appear in smaller text, and the note is bordered by a perforated edge on all sides. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely plain violet paper with no printed text, vignettes, or ornamental elements; the perforated border visible on all edges is the sole distinguishing feature of the reverse. |
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Eglosheim, a small village near Ludwigsburg in Württemberg, hosted one of the many German prisoner-of-war camps that issued internal camp currency during the First World War. These Lagergeld notes were a practical administrative measure — they prevented prisoners from accumulating Reichsmark that could fund escapes and kept canteen transactions traceable. The violet paper is characteristic of lower-denomination camp scrip, where color-coding by value reduced fraud and simplified handling by guards with no banking background.
Campbell 2923 is sparsely documented, and surviving examples are uncommon — most camp scrip was destroyed or simply discarded at war's end.