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10 Lire Bogliaco; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra di Bogliaco |
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| Year | 1939-1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on yellow paper stock, the voucher is divided by a vertical rule into a left counterfoil stub and a main body; the stub carries the camp name in italic type above a serial number prefixed 'No'. The main body bears the full camp title in bold capitals along the upper margin, with the denomination 'BUONO per L. 10,00' in large bold type at centre, a manuscript signature of the Camp Commandant at right, and a validity clause in smaller type at foot; a circular handstamp impression is applied across the surface, and the serial number is repeated at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, the plain yellow paper stock left blank save for natural aging toning and a central vertical fold line running the full height of the note. |
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Bogliaco, a small village on the western shore of Lake Garda, housed one of Italy's prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War. These internal camp scrip notes were issued specifically to prevent prisoners from accumulating Italian legal tender — a standard Axis policy aimed at limiting escape resources and black market activity outside the wire.
The Campbell reference 6319 places this within a documented but genuinely scarce series. Camp scrip from Italian installations survives far less frequently than equivalent German or British-issued PoW currency, largely because Italian camps were disrupted abruptly following the September 1943 armistice, at which point many records and remaining stocks were lost or destroyed.