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50 Kopecks Krasnaya Rechka camp
| Issuer | K.u.K. Feld-Jäger-Bataillons-Commando (Imperial and Royal Field Hunter Battalion Command) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 КОПЕК NOTGELDE SZÜKSÉGPÉNZ KRASN. R.J. 20.I.1918 (Translation: 50 kopecks. Emergency money. Krasn. R.J. 20.I.1918) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress print on plain paper. Three lines of bilingual text in German and Hungarian, in bold block lettering, fill the upper portion of the note within a rectangular border with decorative corner elements. A circular official handstamp at centre-lower area bears the Austrian imperial double-headed eagle and the full unit inscription around the circumference. |
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Krasnaya Rechka was a prisoner-of-war camp near Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, and this 50 Kopeck token note is among the more geographically isolated pieces of Austro-Hungarian military scrip known to collectors. The K.u.K. Feld-Jäger-Bataillons-Commando that issued it was not administering a Habsburg garrison — it was itself interned, the unit having been captured on the Eastern Front and relocated deep into Siberia.
Camp scrip of this type was produced to prevent hard currency from circulating among prisoners, keeping internal economies contained. The kopeck denomination rather than Kronen confirms the issuing authority was working within the local monetary framework imposed by camp administration.