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25 centimes - Bon de cantine - Nevers
| Issuer | Dépôt des Prisonniers de Guerre de Nevers |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on yellow-ochre paper stock within a plain rectangular border, the voucher bears the issuing authority's name in bold type across the upper portion, separated from the central denomination figure by a short wavy rule. The face value is stated in large characters at centre, with a ruled box enclosing a serial number at the lower portion, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse presents unprinted yellow-ochre paper stock with no applied design, showing only faint strike-through impressions from the letterpress text on the obverse. |
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Bons de cantine were the internal scrip currency of French prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, issued to German and Austro-Hungarian internees for purchases at the camp canteen. The Nevers depot was one of dozens of provincial holding facilities repurposed from existing military or civil infrastructure after 1914, and each issued its own scrip independently — there was no standardized national system. That autonomy accounts for the wide variation in printing quality and format across different depots.
Camp scrip was explicitly non-negotiable outside the wire, a deliberate policy to prevent its use in escape attempts or black-market exchange with the local population.