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50 Centimes Saint Brieuc
| Issuer | Dépots de Prisonniers de Guerre de la 10e Région, Saint-Brieuc |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-coloured card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The heading DÉPOTS DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE / de la 10e Région is set at the top, followed by a violet handstamp reading SAINT-BRIEUC applied across the centre. The denomination Cinquante centimes is printed in large bold type below the handstamp. At the lower left, the title Le Commandant appears above a red manuscript signature and a serial number, while Le Comptable at the lower right carries a second manuscript signature in blue ink. A perforated strip runs along the left edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | DÉPOTS DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE de la 10e Région SAINT-BRIEUC Cinquante centimes Le Commandant, Le Comptable, |
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During the First World War, the French military established prisoner-of-war depot camps across its ten administrative military regions, and each was left to improvise its own internal currency for canteen and camp transactions. The 10th Region depot at Saint-Brieuc, in Brittany, was among those that produced fractional notes to manage small-denomination exchange entirely within the wire. These were not issued by any banking authority — the issuer was the camp administration itself.
Camp scrip of this type was printed in very limited quantities, used hard, and rarely preserved. Survivors almost invariably show heavy wear or damage from daily handling in confined conditions.