1 Lira Carpi - n.73

Campo 73 was one of dozens of Italian POW camps operating under the Regio Esercito during the Second World War, each authorized to issue its own internal scrip to prevent prisoners from accumulating currency usable outside the wire. These camp lire had no value beyond the issuing enclosure — redemption upon liberation was neither guaranteed nor, in most cases, pursued.

Campi lire are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision. Documentation on Campo 73's location and prisoner population remains incomplete, and many Italian POW camp issues were produced under improvised conditions with minimal standardization across the series.