20 Pfennigs Strasburg; Rumanenkommando XI

Rumänenkommando XI was a German military administrative unit responsible for overseeing Romanian prisoners of war held in the Strasbourg area during the First World War. These small-denomination camp notes were issued as internal scrip — prisoners could not use Reichsmark currency, so purpose-printed vouchers like this one substituted for it within the camp economy, redeemable only at designated canteens or stores under military supervision.

Gebr. Saupe was a local Strasbourg printer with no particular specialization in security printing, which shows. The practical simplicity of the production reflects the purely functional nature of the issue — no serial numbering system that would reliably prevent duplication, minimal anti-counterfeiting design.