Coins; Medals; Money; Numismatics; Prisoners of war
[Anonymous], “European War Prison Camp Tokens.” The Numismatist, XXX
(1917), pp. 18-19.
Particularly on the prisoners money of the “k. u. k. Offiziersstation
für Kriegsgefangene Mühling,” (1915), with reproductions.
J. Hunt Deacon, “Isle of Man Internment Camp Money.” The Numismatic
Scrapbook Magazine, IX (June, 1943), pp. 313-314.
On internment camp money issued in the present war.
J. Hunt Deacon, “More Internment Camp Money.” The Numismatic Scrapbook
Magazine, IX (July, 1943). pp. 428 f.
On present war money issued for civilian internment camps.
Robert Guerlain, A Prisoner in Germany. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.,
1944.
On pp. 71-73, information is found on prices and currency in German
prison camps, during the period of 1939 to 1941.
II. European War-Prisoner Medals
German Capture Medal by Ludwig Gies
J. Schulman, La Guerre Européenne 1914-1916. Catalogue LXV, April 1916,
p. 82, no. 809.
The description reads:
Prisonniers de guerre.
Médaille uniface coulée en bronze par L. G(ies). Un soldat allemand
amène un soldat français, un russe, un anglais, un belge, un serbe et
un indigène. Br. mm. 64. Médaille très intéressante. fl. 18.
Max Bernhart, Die Münchener Medaillenkunst der Gegenwart. Munich-Berlin:
R. Oldenbourg, 1917.
A photographic reproduction, 60 millimeters in diameter, is found on
Plate 15, no. 102.
French War-Prisoner Medal of 1916
J. Schulman, La Guerre Européenne 1914-1916. Catalogue LXXIII, p. 8 no.
52.
The description reads:
Pour nos prisonniers.
Médaille portative par O. Yencesse. Un poilus assis en attitude
accablée. Légende POUR NOS-PRISONNIERS. Rev. Une colombe portant dans
son bec un rameau d’olivier, en bas. 1916. Métal argenté mm. 26, coins
arrondis. fl. 3.50.
German Camp Douglas Medal
[Anonymous], “German Prisoners’ Art School,” in The New York Times,
Sunday, August 20, 1916, p. 12.
[Anonymous], “Some Interesting Medallic Issues,” The Numismatist, XXIX
(March, 1916), p. 124, no. 4.
III. American War Prison Tokens and Medals
Civil War Prisons and Prisoners
Richard F. Hemmerlein, Prisons and Prisoners of the Civil War. Boston:
The Christopher Publishing House, 1934.
A general survey of the history of the prisons and the treatment of
prisoners during the Civil War, with select bibliography.
A. B. Sage’s Historical Prison Tokens
Augustus B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, No. 1, New
York: February, 1859, p. 1.
Advertisement and description of the series of Sage’s “Historical
Tokens,” nos. 1-10.
A. B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, New York: June,
1859.
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