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4 Heller Spratzern; Civilian Internees
| Issuer | Spital Spratzern (Military Hospital Spratzern) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#1566 |
| Obverse description | Plain black letterpress print on cream-coloured paper with perforated edges. The issuer name "Spital Spratzern." appears at the top in serif type, separated from the body text by a double horizontal rule. The denomination "4 (vier) Heller." is stated in large type at the foot, with the word "GUTSCHEIN" centred in bold capitals and "für" in smaller italic script between them. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is otherwise blank on cream paper with perforated edges, bearing only a handwritten collector notation in pencil at the lower right. |
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Spratzern was a village outside St. Pölten in Lower Austria that hosted a large Austro-Hungarian military hospital complex during the First World War. This 4 Heller note was issued for civilian internees held there — a detail worth pausing on, since it places this piece outside the more familiar soldier-scrip category entirely. Civilian internment in Austria-Hungary during the war drew heavily from populations deemed politically suspect: Ruthenians, Serbs, Italians, and others swept up in the early wartime security measures.
Camp-issued Heller denominations of this type circulated only within the wire, redeemable nowhere else. Campbell 1566 is the sole reference point; documentation on quantity printed or surviving examples is thin.