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50 Heller Aschach PoW Camp
| Issuer | K.u.k. Kriegsgefangenenlager Aschach an der Donau |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue guilloche underprint covers the field, with denomination numeral 50 in solid black at all four corners. Imperial Austrian double-headed eagle vignette at top centre, camp title inscription below in Gothic script, and large Gothic-lettered denomination in the centre. Two facsimile signatures flank the word Lagergeld, with role titles beneath each; printer imprint at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | K.u.k. Kriegsgefangenenlager in Aſchach a.D. Fünfzig Heller Lagergeld Verwaltungsoffizier. Lagerkommandant. HAAS & COMP. STEYR. (Translation: Imperial and Royal POW Camp at Aschach an der Donau Fifty Heller Camp Money Administration Officer. Camp Commandant.) |
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Aschach an der Donau, on the south bank of the Danube in Upper Austria, held Allied prisoners — predominantly Russian and Italian — during the war years, and like most K.u.k. camp administrations it issued its own internal scrip to prevent prisoners from accumulating currency usable outside the wire. These Lagergeld issues circulated only within the camp economy: canteen purchases, small trades, nothing more.
Haas & Comp. in Steyr handled a number of such commissions for nearby camps, making them a minor but documentable node in the administrative machinery of Habsburg prisoner management. The 50 Heller denomination suggests a functioning internal price structure rather than purely token use.