0.10 Lire Gonars; PoW Camp

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.