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5 Pfennigs Strasburg; Rumanenkommando XI
| Issuer | Rumänenkommando XI (Gebr. Saupe, Straßburg) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light green paper, the face is set within a dotted rectangular border frame. The denomination and voucher designation are rendered in bold black letterpress type across three lines in the upper portion, with the issuing authority name in large bold Gothic script below. A circular violet handstamp reading 'Rumänenkommando XI' is applied to the lower left, and the printer's imprint 'Gebr. Saupe, Straßburg' appears in small text at the lower left margin outside the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für 5 Pfennig Rumänenkommando XI Gebr. Saupe, Straßburg. (Translation: Voucher for 5 Pfennig. Romanian Command XI. Saupe Brothers, Strasbourg.) |
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Gebr. Saupe was a commercial printing firm in Strasbourg, not a security printer — which tells you something about the conditions under which this camp scrip was produced. The Rumänenkommando XI was a prisoner-of-war labor detachment of Romanian captives, almost certainly taken during the Central Powers' 1916–1917 campaigns that effectively knocked Romania out of the war. Camp Lagergeld of this type was issued to allow controlled internal exchange while preventing prisoners from accumulating currency usable beyond the wire.
Strasbourg's status as a German city at the time — Alsace-Lorraine having been annexed after 1871 — meant local commercial printers were readily available for such low-priority contracts.