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0.10 Lire Bogliaco; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra di Bogliaco |
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| Year | 1939-1943 |
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| Value | 10 Centesimi (0.10 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on plain paper in black ink, horizontally formatted and divided by a vertical rule into two panels. The left panel bears a circular handstamp in violet ink reading 'Campo Concentramento prigionieri di guerra di Bogliaco', with a serial number printed below. The right panel carries the full camp title as a heading, the denomination 'BUONO per L. 0,10' in bold type, a manuscript signature of the Camp Commandant in violet ink above his title 'Il Comandante del Campo', and the restriction legend along the lower edge, with the serial number repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Campo Concentramento prigionieri di guerra di BOGLIACO Il Comandante del Campo BUONO per L. 0,10 VALE SOLO PRESSO LO SPACCIO DEL CAMPO (Translation: Prisoner of war concentration camp of Bogliaco. The Camp Commandant. Voucher for 0.10 lire. Valid only at the camp canteen.) |
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Bogliaco, on the western shore of Lake Garda, housed one of several Italian prisoner-of-war camps that issued their own internal scrip during the Second World War. These fractional notes — tenths of a lira — functioned as canteen currency, legally isolating prisoners from the civilian economy and preventing the accumulation of Italian state money that could theoretically fund escape attempts.
Camp-issued scrip of this type was produced locally, not by a commercial printer, which accounts for the crude manufacture common across surviving examples. Most were destroyed or discarded at liberation.