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5 Kronen Aschach PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.k. Kriegsgefangenenlager Aschach an der Donau |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Currency | Crown (1892-1918) |
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| Obverse description | Austro-Hungarian imperial double-headed eagle vignette at top centre, flanked by numeral 5 in black corner squares. Camp title inscription below eagle, denomination 'Fünf 5 Kronen' in large Gothic blackletter at centre over a fine guilloche underprint. Two manuscript signatures appear below, with titles 'Verwaltungsoffizier' and 'Lagerkommandant', and 'Lagergeld' between them. |
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| Reverse description | Identical in design to the obverse, with the same guilloche underprint, imperial double-headed eagle vignette at top centre, corner numeral squares, and Gothic blackletter denomination, but without a serial number or manuscript signatures. |
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Aschach an der Donau housed Russian and later Italian prisoners during the First World War, and the camp scrip issued there — printed by Haas & Comp. in nearby Steyr — was a practical solution to a persistent problem: preventing PoWs from accumulating Austro-Hungarian currency they could use to bribe guards or fund escape attempts. The Lagermarken system was mandated across k.u.k. camps by 1915, and Aschach's notes conform to that broader administrative framework.
Campbell 1318 is not a rare denomination within the series, but surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon — camp scrip was rarely preserved by anyone with reason to keep it.