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1 Pound Green Point Track P.O.W. Camp
| Issuer | Green Point Track Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1899-1902 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE POUND ₤ ONE GOOD FOR ONE POUND STERLING Payable on demand to Prisoners of War only at the canteen Green Point Track G. W. Barnes MANAGER |
| Reverse description | Essentially unprinted, the reverse shows the pink-red underprint of the obverse text and border bleeding faintly through the paper, with scattered handwritten ink inscriptions — likely prisoner or administrative notations — applied across the surface, and heavy fold lines consistent with circulation within the camp. |
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Green Point Track, on the Cape Flats outside Cape Town, was one of the earliest British internment sites of the Anglo-Boer War, holding Boer prisoners before the network of offshore and overseas camps was established. The canteen vouchers issued there — this 1 Pound denomination among them — functioned as a closed currency, preventing prisoners from accumulating sterling that could finance escape attempts or be smuggled out. Campbell's reference 4855 places it within a well-documented but physically rare group; most camp scrip was destroyed or discarded at repatriation.
Surviving examples are almost always creased and handled. Clean ones are the anomaly, not the rule.