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5 Korona POW Camp; Zalaegerszeg
| Issuer | K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Zalaegerszeg-Tábor (Imperial and Royal Prisoner of War Camp Zalaegerszeg) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Printer | Globus, Budapest |
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| Obverse lettering | Csakis a fogolytáborban érvényes. Cs. és K. Hadifogoly-Tábor ZALAEGERSZEG-TÁBOR Öt Korona Ez az összeg egy részét képezi a hadifoglyok részéről a táborparancsnokságnál letétbe helyezett vagyonnak Zalaegerszeg, 1916. augusztus 15. "Globus" Budapest. |
| Reverse description | Green and pink letterpress reverse, identical in overall layout to the obverse, with the denomination numeral "5" in dark corner medallions and the same floral guilloche border. The central oval cartouche at the top carries the validity restriction in German, with the series designator and serial number printed in pink panels to its left and right respectively. Russian Cyrillic text "ПЯТЬ КОРОНЬ" is interspersed within the main explanatory text, reflecting the multinational prisoner population, and the imperial coat of arms with motto appears again at the foot alongside three facsimile signatures. |
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POW camp scrip issued by the Austro-Hungarian military administration at Zalaegerszeg, where Russian prisoners captured on the Eastern Front were held in significant numbers from 1915 onward. Camp currencies like this one were a deliberate control mechanism — prisoners could earn wages for labor details, but the scrip was worthless outside the wire, preventing escape funds from accumulating.
Globus was a well-established Budapest commercial printer, not a security press, which shows in the relatively modest production. The 5 Korona denomination was the highest in the Zalaegerszeg series, roughly equivalent to a day's unskilled civilian wage at the time.