Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Centimes - Roanne
| Issuer | Dépôt de Prisonniers de Guerre de Roanne |
|---|---|
| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on pale green paper with a decorative border composed of fine ornamental scrollwork and corner flourishes. A central black rectangular panel carries the denomination '0fr,25' in bold numerals, flanked on either side by horizontal rows of guilloche-style dot patterns. The heading 'PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE' is set in large display type beneath the regional designation '13me RÉGION', with a serial number box in the upper right corner and issue details printed in small type along the lower margin. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | DÉPÔT DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE ✤ DE ROANNE ✤ (Translation: War Prisoner Depot of Roanne.) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Roanne's prisoner-of-war depot operated under French military administration during the First World War, and like dozens of similar camps across France, it issued its own internal fractional currency when the national coinage supply collapsed under wartime hoarding. These camp-issued notes — monnaie de nécessité in the most literal sense — were legal only within the wire, accepted for canteen purchases and internal labor payments.
Paper examples from Roanne are fragile survivors. Camp scrip rarely left the compound in usable condition, and most was destroyed or discarded at repatriation.