Gnadenfrei WWI Pow Camp - 10 Pfennig

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Giovanni Miceli Puperi Valued Member Brazil 67 Posts	Posted 10/17/2020 6:37 pm I have no clue as how this one came to me, I don't remember buying it (I have a really good memory about my purchases, mainly because how few they are xD). Some months ago I was organizing some foreign coins and came into this one. After looking it up, it seems to be a 10 Pfennig made to circulate in a WWI POW camp for officers. Though it would be in german territory at the time, now it's in Poland. I also found out that the camp was placed in a place that was used as a boy's school before the war. Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34428 Posts	Posted 10/17/2020 9:41 pm @gmp, an interesting piece. Any thoughts on the significance of the K G counterstamps? As mavericks, it is typically impossible to know. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Giovanni Miceli Puperi Valued Member Brazil 67 Posts	Posted 10/20/2020 6:03 pm Quote: Any thoughts on the significance of the K G counterstamps? My best guess is that it's supposed to mean "KRIEGSGEFANGENEM", that means prisoner of war. What intrigues me is that they went as far as to mint a currency bearing the camp's name to end up counter marking them with such stamps. Maybe to help illiterate people to differentiate from regular currency? Report this Post to the Staff
Giovanni Miceli Puperi Valued Member Brazil 67 Posts	Posted 10/20/2020 6:15 pm After doing some research I've found very similar designs used in private issues, so maybe the stamps are there to help people to differentiate. I've also found a 5 and a 50 Pfennig coin/token from the same place, but only the 5 had been stamped. In no other WWI POW camp token there seems to be similar markings. Report this Post to the Staff
gumer Valued Member Poland 68 Posts	Posted 10/23/2020 04:05 am but only the 5 had been stamped. Edited by gumer 10/23/2020 04:58 am Report this Post to the Staff
Giovanni Miceli Puperi Valued Member Brazil 67 Posts	Posted 11/04/2020 12:39 pm Interesting! Likely the lack of stamps doesn't mean much... Report this Post to the Staff
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