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1 Rupee Ragama; PoW Camp

Uitgever Prisoners of War Camp, Ragama
Jaar 1901
Type Log in om details te zien
Waarde Log in om details te zien
Valuta Log in om details te zien
Samenstelling Log in om details te zien
Afmetingen Log in om details te zien
Vorm Log in om details te zien
Drukker Log in om details te zien
Ontwerper(s) Log in om details te zien
Graveur(s) Log in om details te zien
In omloop tot Log in om details te zien
Referentie(s) Camb#4820
Beschrijving voorzijde Log in om details te zien
Opschrift voorzijde Re. 1.
GOOD
FOR
ONE RUPEE
Current only within the Prisoners' Enclosure and payable at the Office of the Officer in charge of Prisoners of War, Ragama.
Captain,
Camp Commandant.
Beschrijving keerzijde Plain paper reverse with no printed design, showing show-through of obverse text and fold lines consistent with wartime utility production.
Opschrift keerzijde Log in om details te zien
Handtekening(en) Log in om details te zien
Beveiligingstype Log in om details te zien
Beschrijving beveiliging Log in om details te zien
Varianten Log in om details te zien
Opmerkingen

Ragama, north of Colombo, held Boer prisoners captured during the South African War — one of several camps the British established in Ceylon as a way of keeping prisoners far from any possible rescue or escape back to the front. This note was issued for internal camp use, part of a controlled scrip economy designed to let prisoners purchase canteen goods without handling standard currency that might facilitate escape attempts or be smuggled out.

Ceylon's PoW camp issues are among the rarest of all British colonial internment scrip. The Campbell reference alone places it — almost nothing else about surviving quantities or redemption is documented with certainty.

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