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50 Pfennigs Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Emittent SS-Standort-Kantine Buchenwald
Jahr 1937-1945
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Nennwert 50 Pfennigs (0.50 RM)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Black letterpress text on a pale green guilloche underprint with a scalloped border running the full perimeter. The issuer inscription appears along the top in bold Gothic-style lettering, underlined, with the denomination rendered in large numerals at centre flanked by the currency abbreviation on both sides and separated by double horizontal rules. The word WERTMARKE and a serial number appear in the lower portion of the note.
Vorderseitenlegende ᛋᛋ-Standort-Kantine - Buchenwald
RM. -.50 RM.
WERTMARKE
(Translation: SS-Location Canteen - Buchenwald. RM 0.50. Value token.)
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Anmerkungen

Camp scrip issued at Buchenwald served no conventional monetary function. The SS-Standort-Kantine system restricted prisoner purchasing power to the camp canteen, where stock was deliberately inadequate and access selectively granted — effectively making the currency a tool of control rather than exchange. Buchenwald's scrip is among the better-documented examples of this system, partly because the camp's records survived Allied capture relatively intact in April 1945.

Forgeries were produced within the camp by prisoner networks. Some circulated undetected.