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9 Reichspfennigs Metallwerke Holleischen
| Issuer | Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Pink cardboard with black letterpress print on a repeating MWH underprint. The oval MWH company logo occupies the left field, with the large numeral '9' and denomination 'Rpf.' to the right. The inscription 'Wertmarke' appears below, all within a dashed border frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | MWH 9 Rpf. Wertmarke (Translation: Voucher.) |
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Metallwerke Holleischen was a forced-labour munitions factory operating within the Holýšov sub-camp system attached to Flossenbürg concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. The camp's prisoner population — predominantly Jewish women transferred from other camps — was put to work producing shell fuses and small-arms components. This Lagergeld, denominated in the eccentric figure of 9 Pfennigs, was part of an internal scrip system designed to create a simulacrum of wage payment while preventing any real economic exchange with the outside world.
The 9 Pfennig denomination is almost certainly not a coincidence — it was calibrated to the specific canteen goods available, not to any standard monetary unit.