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10 Cents Barkley PoW Camp
| Issuer | Barkeley Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Tan card stock with dark blue letterpress typography throughout. The text "BARKELEY PRISONER OF WAR" appears at top, with "CAMP CANTEEN" set within a solid dark blue rectangular banner in the center, and "CAMP BARKELEY, TEXAS" below. A large bold "10 CENTS" denomination panel is positioned at the right in a ruled box, while the serial number is printed in red at lower left alongside the caution legend "NOT GOOD IF DETACHED". |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 CENTS BARKLEY PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CANTEEN CAMP BARKLEY, TEXAS NOT GOOD IF DETACHED |
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Camp Barkeley, near Abilene, Texas, operated as both a U.S. Army training facility and a prisoner of war internment site under the Geneva Convention framework that required captors to provide canteen access to POWs. These scrip notes were issued internally to allow German prisoners to purchase approved goods without handling U.S. currency — a deliberate policy to prevent coin accumulation that might fund escape attempts.
Production was entirely in-house, printed at the camp itself, which shows. The printing quality is rudimentary by any standard, and the notes were never intended to outlast the war. Most were destroyed or confiscated at repatriation. Survivors typically turn up in former guard or staff collections, not POW ones.