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0.10 Lire Gonars; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento P.G. Gonars |
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| Year | 1942-1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain white voucher printed in black letterpress, with the camp designation and denomination text arranged in three registers. A circular violet control handstamp of the Comando Campo Concentramento P.G. Gonars is applied to the centre-left, partially overlapping a manuscript serial number prefixed "N." in the upper left. The camp commander's handwritten signature appears to the right of the stamp, above the validity clause at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Campo Concentramento P. G. GONARS N. [serial number] Buono per Lire 0.10 Il Comandante del Campo Vale solo per lo Spaccio del Campo. |
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Gonars, a village in Friuli, housed one of the largest Italian internment camps of the war — at its peak holding tens of thousands of Slovenian and Croatian civilians deported during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, not prisoners of war in any conventional sense despite the "P.G." (Prigionieri di Guerra) designation on the scrip. The camp's death toll from hunger and disease was severe, particularly through the winter of 1942–43.
This fractional scrip was produced under camp administration rather than by any central Italian military authority, which is why surviving examples vary in handstamp application and paper stock. The improvised nature of the issue is the point — it wasn't meant to outlast the camp.