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5 Mark Offizier-Gefangenenlager
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin |
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| Size | 100 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note with a fine geometric guilloche underprint across the entire field. A broad vertical stripe in the imperial German colours of black, white, and red runs along the left margin. The issuer's name in Gothic Fraktur script appears at the top, followed by the denomination "Fünf Mark" in large bold blackletter type at centre; the word "Lagergeld" is printed below, and a serial number prefixed "Nr." occupies the lower centre. A large red numeral "5" is printed in the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin Fünf Mark Lagergeld Nr. |
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Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin was a World War One officer prisoner-of-war camp in Schleswig-Holstein. Like most German POW camps of the period, it issued its own scrip to control internal commerce — denying prisoners access to Reichsmark currency that could theoretically fund escape attempts or black-market dealings with locals.
Camp scrip at the officer level was often a cut above the crude stamps used in enlisted camps, reflecting the conventions around officer treatment under the 1907 Hague Regulations. Eutin's issues remain poorly documented in the broader Lagergeld literature, and confirmed examples are genuinely scarce.