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5 Centimes - Bon de cantine Nevers
| Issuer | Dépôt des Prisonniers de Guerre de Nevers |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Dépôt des Prisonniers de Guerre de Nevers Bon de Cantine 0 fr. 05 (Translation: Depot of Prisoners of War of Nevers. Canteen voucher.) |
| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse bearing a large circular violet handstamp applied off-centre, with a central vignette of a military figure and circular legend reading around the perimeter. The stamp is slightly inverted relative to the obverse orientation. |
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Cantina tokens issued by French prisoner-of-war depots during the First World War occupy a narrow and often overlooked corner of emergency scrip collecting. The Nevers depot operated under French military administration to house German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners, and its canteen vouchers — denominated in centimes rather than the franc units more common to civilian emergency issues of the same period — reflect the deliberately constrained purchasing environment of a camp economy. Prisoners could acquire small goods; the fractional denomination kept individual transactions trivial by design.
Paper camp scrip of this type was never intended to survive. Attrition rates were extreme.