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| 正面描述 | Plain unadorned voucher printed in black letterpress on cream paper. The camp name 'PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP, MAADI' appears at top, separated from the central fractional denomination '1/2' by a horizontal rule. A manuscript signature appears in ink at lower right. |
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| 正面铭文 | PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP, MAADI 1/2 |
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Maadi, on the southern outskirts of Cairo, housed one of Egypt's principal prisoner-of-war facilities during the First World War under British administration. Camp scrip of this kind was issued to control internal purchasing — prisoners could not accumulate sterling or Egyptian currency, so camp-specific notes replaced it entirely within the compound economy. The ½ Piastre denomination reflects the small-scale transactions these notes were designed for: canteen goods, tobacco, basic sundries.
POW camp issues from Egypt are among the least-documented of the period. Record-keeping was inconsistent, surviving specimens are genuinely rare, and attribution is often complicated by the absence of serial numbers or printer's marks on the simpler denominations.