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½ Penny Metropole Internment Camp
| Uitgever | Metropole Internment Camp |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1940-1944 |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Square |
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| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Black letterpress print on blue cardboard. A double-ring circle frames the camp name arched along the upper inner border and the denomination in large fractional numerals at centre, with the superscript 'd' to the right. The word CAMP appears along the lower inner border. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | METROPOLE 1/2 d CAMP |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Metropole Internment Camp at Bettembourg in Luxembourg held civilian internees — predominantly enemy aliens and later forced laborers — under German occupation authority during the war years. Camp scrip of this kind was issued specifically to prevent internees from accumulating currency usable outside the wire, a standard Wehrmacht-era control mechanism applied across occupied territory camps.
Blue cardboard distinguished denominations within the internal scrip hierarchy and had no value redeemable anywhere beyond the camp economy. Campbell 5360 is among the scarcer fractional issues from this facility, the ½ Penny denomination suggesting the scrip system was calibrated to British internees or adopted British monetary nomenclature for an English-speaking population.