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0.25 Lire Vittoria
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra, Vittoria (Sicilia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre voucher with ornate letterpress border; left vignette shows an allegorical seated female figure in classical armour holding a standard and sword, with a shield at her feet. The denomination underprint '0.25' appears in guilloche at centre-right, with series letter and number above the bold 'Buono per L.0.25' legend. Two facsimile manuscript signatures appear at bottom with their respective titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | LA LEGGE PUNISCE LE FALSIFICAZIONI LIRE 0.25 |
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Vittoria was a small agricultural town in the Ragusa province of Sicily, an unlikely location for a prisoner of war camp — but the wartime labor demands of Sicilian agriculture made such placements practical. This fractional scrip, denominated at one quarter of a lira, was issued by the camp administration to allow prisoners controlled access to canteen goods without handling standard Italian currency, a common practice across Italian PWC facilities in the final year of the First World War.
Locally printed camp scrip of this kind survives in very small numbers. Most was redeemed or destroyed at the camp's closure following the Armistice.