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75 Pfennig Kriegs Gefangenen Lager
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Lichtenhorst (POW Camp Canteen Administration) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Colourful letterpress vignette occupying the upper two-thirds of the note, presenting a perspective view of the Lichtenhorst prisoner-of-war camp with barrack buildings lining a central road and narrow-gauge railway tracks receding toward a tree line; a canteen building labelled 'Erfrischungsraum H. Heyer' is visible at lower right. Denomination '75 Pfennig' appears in black-framed cartouches at upper left and upper right against the ornamental border of interlocking oval and diamond motifs in dark brown, red and yellow. The lower panel carries the bold Gothic text 'Kriegs Gefangenen Lager / Gutschein über 75 Pfennig' flanked by validity clause and the manuscript signature of the canteen administration. |
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| Obverse lettering | Lichtenhorst 75 Pfennig Kriegs Gefangenen Lager Gutschein über 75 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein gilt nur als Zahlmittel im Lager. Die Kantinen Verwaltung Erfrischungsraum H. Heyer |
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Lichtenhorst was a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Saxony operating during the First World War. Like many such installations, it issued its own internal scrip to prevent real currency from circulating among prisoners — a control measure as much as a logistical one. The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual within camp money series of this period, which more typically clustered around round values; its presence here may reflect a specific canteen pricing structure rather than a standard monetary ladder.
The DeNG reference places this within the broader documented series of German camp issues, though surviving examples vary considerably in condition given the improvised printing methods typical of wartime internal scrip.