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5 Mark Wiesa; Officer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenen-Lager Wiesa bei Annaberg |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Papiermark (1914-1923) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on green underprint, with a guilloche border of repeated dot-and-dash ornamental units framing the entire note. The Saxon coat of arms, surmounted by a royal crown, appears in an oval vignette at left, with the denomination numeral "5" repeated in each corner. The text block at right carries the camp title, the full redemption clause, and the denomination in bold Gothic type "FÜNF MARK", with two manuscript signatures below alongside the date and place, and the printer's imprint "JOHANNES PÄSSLER DRESDEN-N." at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 OFFIZIER-GEFANGENEN-LAGER WIESA BEI ANNABERG Der Kriegsgefangene, Inhaber dieses Gutscheines, erhält bei seiner Entlassung nach der Heimat oder Ueberweisung in ein anderes Lager gegen Rückgabe den Betrag von FÜNF MARK von der Verwaltung für Gefangenengeld des Offizier-Gefangenenlagers Wiesa bei Annaberg ausbezahlt. Der Schein gilt nur innerhalb des Lagers. Postoffizier Leutnant Wiesa bei Annaberg, 1. Januar 1916. Kommandant Rittmeister JOHANNES PÄSSLER DRESDEN-N. (Translation: Officer prisoner of war camp Wiesa near Annaberg. The prisoner of war, holder of this voucher, receives upon his release to the homeland or transfer to another camp upon return, the amount of five mark paid by the administration for prisoner money of the officer prisoner of war camp Wiesa near Annaberg. The note is valid only inside the camp. Postal Officer. Lieutenant. Wiesa near Annaberg, January 1, 1916. Commandant. Cavalry Captain) |
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Wiesa bei Annaberg was a small officer prisoner-of-war camp in Saxony, and its scrip was printed locally by Johannes Pässler of Dresden — a commercial printer with no particular connection to official currency work, which shows in the utilitarian execution. Officer camps under the Hague Conventions were required to pay captured officers a stipend equivalent to that of their own rank in the detaining army, and camp scrip was the mechanism used to fulfill that obligation while keeping foreign currency out of circulation within the wire.
Pässler produced notes for several Saxon camp facilities during 1916. The Wiesa issue is among the scarcer ones, reflecting the camp's limited officer population.