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50 Kopecks Achinsk; Pow Camp
| Issuer | Achinsk POW Camp |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on buff paper. A woodcut-style vignette at centre shows a barrack building flanked by stylised landscape elements. The denomination "50 КОП" is set below the vignette, with trilingual camp-money inscriptions in Russian, Hungarian, and German arranged along the top and lateral borders. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain buff paper reverse, uniform in colour with no design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Achinsk, a small Siberian town on the Trans-Siberian Railway, held Austrian and German prisoners of war during and after World War One. By 1919 the camp was operating under the chaos of the Russian Civil War — White Army control was fragmenting, supply lines were unreliable, and central monetary authority had effectively collapsed across western Siberia. Local prisoner-of-war camp scrip filled the void left by unusable or unavailable state currency.
Camp-issued POW scrip from this region is among the more obscure categories of Russian notgeld. Most issues were produced in tiny quantities on whatever paper was at hand, with rudimentary local printing.