10 Centimes P.O.W. Cage

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.