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10 Cents Rupert; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Prisoner of War Camp Canteen, Rupert, Idaho |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on pink paper, divided into two panels by a vertical rule. The left panel carries the camp name and location in bold serif capitals, with a red serial number below. The right panel bears a circular guilloche underprint with the denomination numeral at centre and the warning legend at base. |
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| Obverse lettering | PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CANTEEN RUPERT, IDAHO 10 CENTS NOT GOOD IF DETACHED |
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American PoW camp scrip occupies a narrow and genuinely odd corner of wartime currency history. Rupert, Idaho held German and Italian prisoners through the later war years, primarily agricultural workers assigned to the region's sugar beet and potato harvests under the labor provisions of the Geneva Convention. The canteen scrip kept prisoner earnings — paid at a fixed rate by the U.S. Army — from entering local commercial circulation, a requirement the War Department enforced across all camp facilities.
Pink paper distinguishes Rupert's 10-cent denomination within its own scrip series, a simple color-coding system to reduce misuse at the canteen window. Functional rather than formal, these notes were never intended to outlast the camp.