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25 Centimes - Bressuire
| Issuer | Dépôt de Prisonniers de Guerre de Bressuire |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress print on a light blue underprint. A coat of arms vignette is positioned at upper centre, flanked by the camp inscription and denomination text. Serial number printed in black. |
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| Obverse lettering | DÉPOT de PRISONNIERS de GUERRE VINGT ~ CINQ CENTIMES BRESSUIRE (Translation: Depot of prisoner of war. Twenty-five centimes.) |
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Bressuire, a small market town in Deux-Sèvres, housed a prisoner-of-war depot during the First World War, and this 25 centimes note is a product of that internal economy. French POW camps frequently issued their own scrip to control spending within the wire — preventing prisoners from accumulating French currency that could facilitate escape or black-market dealings with locals.
Locally printed in Bressuire itself, the production quality reflects the limited resources of a provincial wartime administration rather than any official monetary authority. The issuing body had no banking function whatsoever.