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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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| Reference(s) | Camb#7578, S&B#1054 |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 CENTS BARKLEY PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CANTEEN CAMP BARKLEY, TEXAS NOT GOOD IF DETACHED |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing plain tan fibrous card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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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.