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10 Centimes P.O.W. Cage
| Issuer | P.O.W. Cage Canteen |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellow-buff paper canteen voucher with all text in black letterpress. Three inscriptions are arranged vertically: 'P. O. W. Cage' at top, 'CANTEEN' in bold centred type, and '10 centimes' at foot, each separated by a horizontal rule. The note has a perforated border on all sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | P. O. W. Cage CANTEEN 10 centimes |
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P.O.W. cage canteen issues from the First World War occupy a narrow and poorly documented corner of notaphily. These were internal scrip notes — issued within a specific prisoner-of-war enclosure to control purchasing within the canteen system, preventing cash from circulating freely among prisoners or being used for bribery or escape-related purposes. The issuing authority here is the cage itself, not a national treasury or bank, which makes attribution and cross-referencing difficult.
The Campbell reference (Camb#4884) places this firmly in the specialist literature, but surviving examples are uncommon given the deliberately temporary nature of the scrip.