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1 Cent Camp Atterbury PoW Canteen
| Issuer | Camp Atterbury Prisoner of War Canteen |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on pink paper stock, the face is horizontally divided into three distinct registers. The left margin carries the vertical inscription 'SERIES V'; the central panel bears the unit designation '1560TH S.C.U.' above the two-line legend 'PRISONER OF WAR CANTEEN', with the cautionary notice 'NOT GOOD IF DETACHED' and a red-printed serial number below; the right panel, enclosed within a bold ruled border, presents the denomination '1 CENT' in large display type. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, printed on the same pink paper stock as the obverse, with no text, imagery, or overprint of any kind. |
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Camp Atterbury, located near Edinburgh, Indiana, held Axis prisoners — predominantly German and Italian — during the Second World War. PoW canteen scrip was mandated under the Geneva Convention, which required that prisoners receive pay for labor and that this pay be usable only within the camp, preventing the accumulation of U.S. currency that could aid escape attempts.
Pink paper distinguished the 1-cent denomination within the series. These issues were strictly internal instruments, redeemable only at the camp canteen and theoretically surrendered upon repatriation — survival in collector condition is partly luck, partly deliberate pocket-keeping by men who held onto the scrip as souvenirs after the war.