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½ Crown Palace Internment Camp
| Issuer | Palace Internment Camp |
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| Year | 1940-1942 |
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| Value | ½ Crown (⅛) |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink-brown card stock printed in black letterpress. Series letter and prefix appear at upper left, with the camp name centered across the middle. The denomination '2/6 Half-Crown 2/6' is set in bold type along the lower portion, flanked by the value numeral on each side. A vertical line of perforation runs along the left edge. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain pink-brown card stock, uniform in color throughout. A vertical row of perforations is visible along the right edge, corresponding to the stub attachment on the obverse side. Faint ink offset impressions from the obverse lettering are discernible under close examination. |
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Palace Internment Camp was established on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, one of several sites used by the British government to detain enemy aliens — primarily German and Austrian nationals, many of them Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution and were now, by grim bureaucratic logic, classified as potential threats. The camps issued their own internal scrip because internees were prohibited from holding sterling.
Isle of Man camp currencies are among the more sobering survival artifacts of wartime British internment policy. Genuine examples are genuinely scarce; the population was small, the duration limited, and most scrip was withdrawn when the camps wound down.