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10 Cents Camp Ashby; PoW Camp
| Issuer | United States Army (Prisoner of War Camp, Camp Ashby, Virginia) |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on buff-coloured paper in dark blue ink, with a rectangular border enclosing the camp inscriptions at left and a bold numeral '10' within a decorative cartouche at right, surmounted by the word 'CENTS'. A red serial number is printed in the lower centre, alongside a caution legend in the lower-left corner warning against detachment. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 CENTS PRISONER OF WAR BRANCH CAMP CAMP ASHBY. VIRGINIA NOT GOOD IF DETACHED |
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Camp Ashby, near Temperanceville on Virginia's Eastern Shore, held German prisoners during the Second World War — primarily agricultural laborers redirected into local farming operations after the U.S. began extracting economic value from its POW population under the Geneva Convention's labor provisions. The scrip issued there, including this 10-cent denomination, was designed to circulate only within the camp's canteen system, preventing prisoners from accumulating U.S. currency that might fund escape attempts.
The S&B catalogue (Schwan & Boling) documents this issue as part of a broader, loosely standardized program — individual camps often sourced their scrip locally, and production quality varies considerably across the series.