50 Centimes - Camp de Coëtquidan

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.