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10 Cents Kilmer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Camp Kilmer Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1945-1946 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on cream paper stock, with a plain border enclosing the canteen inscription at centre and the denomination numeral in a separate panel at right. A serial number in red ink appears at centre below the main text block, with a void notice in small type along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CANTEEN CAMP KILMER, NEW JERSEY Void After Date Stamped on Cover GOOD FOR 10 CENTS |
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Camp Kilmer in New Brunswick, New Jersey was primarily a transit facility — one of the busiest Army Service Forces camps in the country, processing hundreds of thousands of troops in both directions across the Atlantic. The prisoner of war canteen scrip issued there exists in a narrow window: the Geneva Convention required that PoW labor wages be paid in a form that could only be spent within the camp, preventing the accumulation of usable currency. This note is the physical result of that obligation.
Camp Kilmer closed its PoW operation in 1946 as German prisoners were repatriated, which compressed the scrip's active life to well under two years.