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1 Cent Roswell; Internment Camp
| Issuer | U.S. Internment Camp Post Exchange, Roswell, New Mexico |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | U.S. INTERNMENT CAMP POST EXCHANGE ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 1 CENT |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain red paper stock, uniform in colour with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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Roswell's wartime prisoner of war camp held Axis POWs — primarily German and Italian — under the Geneva Convention framework that required the U.S. military to provide canteen access for captive personnel. These Post Exchange scrip notes were the mechanism: prisoners received wages for labor (typically 80 cents per day for enlisted men) paid in camp currency that could not be spent outside the wire.
The red paper was deliberate — color-coded by denomination across the series to reduce confusion and discourage counterfeiting. Local printing kept production simple and cost low. The notes were voided and largely destroyed at war's end, which is why surviving examples from any American POW camp PX series are genuinely uncommon.