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50 Pfennig Kriegs Gefangenen Lager
| Issuer | Lichtenhorst Kriegsgefangenenlager (POW Camp Canteen Administration) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | A colourful letterpress vignette occupies the upper portion of the note, presenting a perspective view of the Lichtenhorst prisoner-of-war camp with barracks lining a central road, telegraph poles, and trees in the background. The camp name 'Lichtenhorst' is printed in bold Gothic lettering across the top, flanked on both sides by the denomination '50 Pfennig' in framed cartouches, all within a decorative border of interlocking oval motifs in red, yellow, and black. Below the vignette, a text panel in Gothic script reads 'Kriegs Gefangenen Lager / Gutschein über 50 Pfennig', followed by a validity clause and a manuscript signature of the canteen administrator H. Heijer on behalf of 'Die Kantinen Verwaltung'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a vivid colour vignette of two prisoners of war in uniform flanking a large motor plough (tractor) set against a birch-wood landscape with flowering meadow in the foreground, illustrating the agricultural labour performed by camp internees. A caption in Gothic lettering at the upper centre reads 'Kulturarbeit d. Kriegsgefangenen / Motorpflug'. The entire composition is framed by the same decorative border of interlocking oval motifs in red, yellow, and black as seen on the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | Kulturarbeit d. Kriegsgefangenen Motorpflug |
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