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5 Pfennigs Eglosheim; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenen-Lager Eglosheim |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#2921 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on tan paper with perforated edges. The camp name and location are set in Gothic blackletter script at the top, with the denomination numeral '5' rendered in a large bold typeface centred between the words 'Gut für' and 'Pfennig'. Below, the word 'Lagergeld' appears as a secondary inscription, with the validity disclaimer in smaller type along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgefangenen-Lager Eglosheim. Gut für 5 Pfennig Lagergeld. Hat nur innerhalb des Lagers Gültigkeit. (Translation: Eglosheim prisoner of war camp. Good for 5 pfennigs. Camp money. Valid only within the camp.) |
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Eglosheim, a small locality near Ludwigsburg in Württemberg, housed a prisoner-of-war camp during the First World War. Like hundreds of similar facilities across Germany, it issued its own internal camp currency to prevent prisoners from accumulating Reichsmarks that might fund escape attempts or be smuggled out — the monetary quarantine logic was consistent across the system, mandated from the War Ministry level downward.
Campbell 2921 is among the lower denominations in the Eglosheim series. Camp scrip of this period survives almost entirely because it was pocketed as a souvenir by released or repatriated prisoners in 1918 — utility currency that outlasted the wire.