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50 Centimes - Bon de cantine Vierzon
| Issuer | Dépôt des Prisonniers de Guerre de Vierzon |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Dépôt des Prisonniers de Guerre de Vierzon BON DE CANTINE 50 centimes (Translation: Prisoner of war depot of Vierzon. Canteen voucher.) |
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| Reverse lettering | ★ PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE ★ VIERZON Le Commandant DU DEPOT (Translation: Prisoners of war Vierzon. Depot commander.) |
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Bon de cantine notes were issued by individual French prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War to allow German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners to purchase goods at the camp canteen without handling French currency. Vierzon, a railway junction town in the Cher département, housed one of these depots. The scrip was strictly internal — it had no value outside the wire and was deliberately kept non-exchangeable to prevent accumulation of spendable currency by prisoners.
Camp-issued cantine bons survive in wildly unequal numbers depending on the size and duration of the depot. Vierzon examples are among the scarcer provincial issues.