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0.10 Lire Montmale; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra di Montmale |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | Campo concentramento prigionieri di guerra di Montmale Buono per Lire 0,10 Il Comandante del campo Vale solo per lo spaccio del campo. (Translation: Prisoner of war concentration camp Montmale. Voucher for 0.10 lire. The camp commander. Valid only for the camp canteen.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, with plain paper showing natural toning and fold lines consistent with wartime field issue. |
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Italian prisoner of war camp scrip occupies a genuinely strange corner of wartime numismatics. Montmale, a small comune in the Piedmont region, housed a camp that issued its own fractional currency to control the internal economy — preventing prisoners from accumulating Italian legal tender and restricting purchasing power to officially sanctioned goods within the camp perimeter. The 0.10 Lire denomination is among the smallest units issued, useful mainly for canteen transactions of negligible value.
Documentation on Montmale's camp scrip series remains thin. Survival rates for this type of ephemeral paper are low.