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1 Lira Renicci - n.97
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra N. 97 (Prisoner of War Camp No. 97, Renicci) |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Lira (1 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | Plain blue paper with black letterpress text. Two circular handstamps applied in blue and red ink, one at left with a dotted vignette pattern, one at centre-right bearing the camp command legend. A handwritten serial number and manuscript signature of the Camp Commandant appear in blue ink at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra N. 97 Buono per L. UNA Il Comandante il Campo Vale solo per lo spaccio del Campo (Translation: Prisoner of war concentration camp no. 97 Good for one lira. Camp commandant. Valid only for the camp canteen.) |
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Renicci, near Anghiari in Tuscany, was one of Italy's larger internment installations — at its peak in 1942–43 it held several thousand Yugoslav and Balkan detainees, many of them political prisoners rather than conventional combatants. Camp scrip of this kind was a deliberate instrument of economic containment: it could not leave the wire, which meant it had no value in the event of escape and no hard-currency drain on the Italian military economy.
After the September 1943 armistice, the camp was effectively abandoned. Most scrip was discarded or destroyed in the chaos that followed, which accounts for the genuine scarcity of surviving Renicci issues across all denominations.