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5 Centimes Colonie de Précigné
| Issuer | Colonie de Précigné (Camp de Précigné) |
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| Year | 1914-1919 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted grey paper reverse bearing a single circular teal handstamp at centre, partially legible, with text reading PRÉCIGNÉ around the border. No other design elements are present. |
| Reverse lettering | PRÉCIGNÉ |
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Camp de Précigné was a French internment facility in the Sarthe département that housed civilian internees — primarily German and Austro-Hungarian nationals — during the First World War. Like many such camps, it issued its own internal scrip to manage commerce among the prisoner population without allowing access to metropolitan currency. These small-denomination notes were strictly camp money, non-exchangeable outside the wire.
Grey paper was deliberately chosen for this denomination to distinguish it from higher values at a glance — a practical necessity in a camp economy where transactions had to move quickly across a language barrier.