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50 Pfennig Straßburg; Rumänenkommando XI
| Issuer | Rumänenkommando XI (Gebr. Saupe, Straßburg) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1873-1923) |
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| Obverse description | Plain orange paper voucher printed by letterpress, enclosed within a simple dotted rectangular border frame. Bold black text within the frame states the denomination and issuing authority, with a circular violet handstamp bearing the inscription "Rumänenkommando XI" applied to the lower left interior. The printer's imprint "Gebr. Saupe, Straßburg." appears in small type below the border at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für 50 Pfennig Rumänenkommando XI Gebr. Saupe, Straßburg. (Translation: Voucher for 50 Pfennig. Romanian Command XI. Saupe Brothers, Strasbourg.) |
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Strasbourg during the First World War was German territory — Alsace had been annexed after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 — and the city hosted a range of military administrative units issuing their own small-denomination emergency scrip when coinage vanished from circulation. This note was issued by a Romanian prisoner-of-war command unit, "Rumänenkommando XI," almost certainly for use within a specific labor detachment or camp compound rather than in general commerce.
Gebr. Saupe were a Strasbourg printing firm whose name appears on several local Notgeld issues from the same period. The orange paper is a distinguishing production feature of this particular issue within that series.