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0.10 Lire Vittoria
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra, Vittoria (Sicilia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tan note with ornate letterpress border and guilloche underprint. Left vignette shows an allegorical seated female figure in classical armour holding a standard and sword, representing Victory. Text panel to the right carries camp authority inscriptions, series letter, and denomination, with two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse lettering | LA LEGGE PUNISCE LE FALSIFICAZIONI LIRE 0.10 |
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Vittoria, in the Ragusa province of southeastern Sicily, housed one of Italy's wartime prisoner-of-war camps during the final year of the First World War. Camp scrip of this type was issued to prevent prisoners from accessing the broader Italian economy — internal camp currency, redeemable only within the enclosure, circulated in place of state legal tender.
Marchisetti in Turin printed for several Italian military and administrative clients during this period. The physical distance between printer and issuing camp — roughly 1,200 kilometers — was unremarkable for the time; centralized lithographic capacity meant local authorities rarely had better options.
Surviving examples from Vittoria are genuinely scarce. Camp scrip was routinely destroyed or confiscated at the armistice.