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25 Centimes - Châteauroux
| Issuer | Dépôt d'Officiers Prisonniers de Guerre de Châteauroux |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-grey card stock printed in black letterpress without vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the top, followed by a small decorative typographic separator, with the canteen designation and denomination rendered in progressively larger type below. A serial prefix letter and number appear at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEPOT D'OFFICIERS PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE DE CHÂTEAUROUX LE COMMANDANT |
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Châteauroux housed one of France's principal officer prisoner-of-war depots during the First World War, and this 25 centimes note was issued internally for use within that facility — not for general French commerce. These camp issues existed because regular coinage was withheld from prisoners as a security measure; small denominations in paper allowed controlled canteen purchases while preventing detainees from accumulating specie that might fund an escape.
Officer camps operated under different conditions than enlisted depots — the Hague Conventions entitled officers to certain provisions and pay, which created a genuine need for an internal monetary system rather than a purely token one.