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1 Cent Camp Ellis PoW Camp
| Issuer | United States Army - Camp Ellis Prisoner of War Camp |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-tinted paper with black letterpress text. The left portion bears the camp identification inscriptions in two lines, with the warning legend and a red serial number in the lower section. A right-side panel framed by a bold border displays the denomination numeral and unit in vertical arrangement. |
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| Reverse description | Plain salmon-tinted paper with no printing, entirely unadorned. |
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Camp Ellis, near Ipava in western Illinois, held Axis prisoners — predominantly German — during World War II, peaking at roughly 10,000 internees. The camp's internal scrip system was a direct requirement of the Geneva Convention, which obligated detaining powers to pay prisoners for labor and to provide a medium of exchange within the camp that could not function outside it. This 1 Cent note is the lowest denomination in that scrip series, used for canteen purchases and minor transactions entirely within the wire.
Campbell's reference number places this firmly within the documented American PoW camp currency issues, a category that saw wide variation in production quality across different camps. Camp Ellis scrip was printed by the Jeffries Bank Note Company of Chicago.