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50 Centimes - Camp de Coëtquidan
| Issuer | Dépôts de Prisonniers de Guerre de la 10e Région |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | DÉPOTS DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE de la 10e Région Cinquante centimes Le Commandant, Le Comptable, (Translation: Prisoners of war depot of the 10th region. Fifty centimes. The commander, the accountant.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same unadorned buff-coloured card stock with no text, imagery, or markings of any kind. |
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Camp de Coëtquidan, in Brittany, was repurposed during the First World War as one of France's major prisoner-of-war camps, holding primarily German and Austro-Hungarian internees. The 10th Military Region — headquartered at Rennes — administered several such camps and issued these scrip notes to manage internal camp commerce, preventing prisoners from accumulating currency usable outside the wire.
WWI French camp scrip is routinely underrepresented in major collections. Much of it was destroyed at repatriation or simply discarded, and surviving pieces rarely carry provenance documentation linking them to specific blocks or issue dates within the 1914–18 window.