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25 centimes - Roche-Maurice
| Issuer | Camp de Prisonniers de Guerre de Roche-Maurice |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain cream paper, the obverse bears the camp heading "Camp de Prisonniers de Guerre de Roche-Maurice (près Nantes)" at top, with a serial number and series letter positioned below. The central denomination legend "Bon de Vingt-Cinq Centimes" is set in large bold type. A circular blue handstamp of the camp appears at lower left, flanked by manuscript signature lines for the Assistant Officer and the Commandant. |
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| Obverse lettering | Camp de Prisonniers de Guerre DE ROCHE-MAURICE (prés Nantes) Bon de Vingt-Cinq Centimes L'Officier-Adjoint, Le Commandant, Camp de Prisonniers de Roche-Maurice (Translation: Prisoners of war depot camp of Roche-Maurice (near Nantes). Voucher of twenty-five centimes. The Assistant Officer. The Commandant. Prisoners camp of Roche-Maurice.) |
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Roche-Maurice was one of hundreds of French prisoner-of-war camps that issued their own fractional scrip during the First World War, a practical necessity given the near-total withdrawal of small change from civilian circulation after August 1914. Camp-issued notes like this one functioned as closed-economy tokens — valid only within the camp's canteen or internal trading system, and worthless the moment a prisoner was transferred or repatriated.
French POW camp scrip from this period is systematically undercatalogued. Many issues survive in tiny quantities because the camps themselves destroyed remaining stocks at the armistice, and what circulated was often reduced to pulp by four years of handling in damp, overcrowded conditions.