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25 Centimes - Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône
| Issuer | 15ème Région Militaire - Dépôt de Prisonniers de Guerre de Miramas |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on cream paper within a decorative rectangular border. Two circular vignettes flank the central text: at left, a laureate female head in profile facing right, and at right, a standing Gallic rooster facing left, both set against foliate ornaments. The RF monogram appears at the lower centre beneath the denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a circular violet handstamp applied at left and a serial number printed in black at right. The handstamp bears an illegible central vignette surrounded by the camp inscription in capital letters along its circumference. |
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Miramas, a rail junction town in Bouches-du-Rhône, hosted one of the many prisoner-of-war depots established across France during the First World War. The 15th Military Region administered a broad swath of southern France, and its POW camps — Miramas among them — issued their own fractional emergency scrip precisely because small change collapsed out of circulation almost immediately after mobilization in August 1914. These notes circulated exclusively within the camp economy, accepted at canteens and internal services but worthless outside the wire.
Camp-issued scrip from the 15th Region is irregularly documented; survival is largely accidental, dependent on former prisoners or guards having kept souvenirs.