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1 Penny Harvey Internment Camp
| Issuer | Harvey Internment Camp |
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| Year | 1940-1942 |
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| Currency | Pound (1788-1966) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-grey paper with black letterpress text arranged in four lines within a double-ruled rectangular border. A purple handstamp reading "INTERNEES INTERNMENT" is applied diagonally across the centre of the coupon. Serial number and series letter appear on the third line alongside the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | INTERNMENT CAMPS 1d. Canteen Coupon |
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Harvey Internment Camp operated near the town of Harvey in Western Australia, one of several civilian internment facilities established after Australia entered the Pacific war. The camp held enemy aliens — predominantly German and Italian nationals, along with some Japanese internees — and like several Australian camps of the period, it issued its own internal scrip to allow canteen purchases without circulating legal tender among the prisoner population.
The 1 Penny denomination is the smallest in the Harvey series. Camp scrip of this type was typically destroyed or rendered void at the camp's closure, making surviving examples genuinely uncommon rather than artificially scarce.