1914-18 AD., Germany, Hörde in Westphalia, WW1 POW Camp Phoenix, 1 Pfennig, Menzel 11722.1

Germany, Hoerde in Westphalia (today Dortmund-Hörde), WW1 POW Camp Phoenix, 1914-18 AD.,
1 Pfennig (ø 15 mm / 0,65 g), zinc, axes medal alignment ↑↑ (0°),
Obv.: KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER PHOENIX / 1 , area of validity between two dotted circles, value number at center.
Rev.: 1 , value number at center between two dotted circles.
Frenzel 110.1 ; Menzel 11722.1 .

Phoenix was a steel production area in Hoerde. For the industrial site of the camp : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund-H%C3%B6rde , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%C3%B6nix_AG_f%C3%BCr_Bergbau_und_H%C3%BCttenbetrieb ; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6rder_Bergwerks-_und_H%C3%BCtten-Verein

POW token currency presumably for use in the "Phoenix" camp, prisoners of world war 1 working at the Phoenix steel production site near Dortmund. Metal tokens supplemented paper issues that also circulated in the over eighty German prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War.