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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2763575, member: 46237&quot;]Here are some new pickups for my Hungarian type set. Some may consider these exonumia, as they are special war issues struck for use in the Kenyérmezö POW Camp during WWI.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Kenyérmezö POW Camp (1914-1918) was the largest POW camp operated in Hungary during WWI. The camp housed Russian, Italian, and Serbian prisoners of war. It was not uncommon for POW camps to issue their own paper currency during WWI in order to control commerce. This is the only camp, however, that was large enough where it was practical to issue coinage, as by some estimates, the camp housed between 100,000 and 250,000 prisoners.</p><p><br /></p><p>A series of coins was struck in 1915 that consisted of 1, 2, 10, 20, and 50 fillér denominations. The coins used both Hungarian (obverse) and German (reverse) legends, with the name of the camp in Hungarian on both faces.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hungary 1 Fillér 1915 (Campbell-1684)</b></p><p>Brass 17mm, 2.41g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]635688[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><b>Hungary </b>20 Fillér 1915 (Campbell-1687)</b></p><p>Brass 21mm, 3.46g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]635689[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><b>Hungary </b>50 Fillér 1915 (Campbell-1688)</b></p><p>Brass 23mm, 4.14g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]635690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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