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1 Cent Phoenixville; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Valley Forge General Hospital Prisoner of War Canteen |
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| Year | 1945-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Buff-toned paper with dark blue letterpress print throughout. The left portion carries the issuing authority inscription in tiered typography, with a cautionary clause in smaller type at the lower left. A red serial number is printed below the clause. To the right, a bold rectangular frame encloses the large numeral '1' above the denomination legend 'CENT' in blue letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff-toned paper with no printed design or text; reverse is entirely blank. |
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Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania operated as a major military hospital during World War II and into the immediate postwar period, holding German and Italian prisoners of war among its population. Like many PoW installations in the United States, the camp issued its own scrip to allow prisoners access to canteen goods while preventing U.S. currency from circulating within the compound — federal policy required that prisoners not handle American money directly.
Campbell 8864 is among the lower denominations in this small series. PoW canteen scrip from stateside camps is genuinely uncommon in the collector market; most was destroyed at closure or simply discarded.