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10 Lire Mortara - n.146
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento P.G. N. 146 (Italian POW Camp No. 146, Mortara) |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain ochre-yellow letterpress-printed voucher on uncoated paper with perforated edges. The camp designation and military postal reference are set in bold capitals at the top, with the denomination in large type at lower left. A handwritten serial number and manuscript signature of the camp commandant appear at centre-right, with a faint circular control stamp at left. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, plain ochre-yellow paper with perforated edges on all sides, no text, vignette, or any other design element. |
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Campo Concentramento P.G. N. 146 at Mortara was one of dozens of Italian prisoner-of-war camps that issued internal scrip under the Geneva Convention framework, which required detaining powers to pay working prisoners in a currency that could not be used outside the camp. These notes were produced locally — crude by any professional printing standard — and functioned purely within the camp canteen economy.
Mortara's issues are among the harder Italian POW scrip types to locate today. Most were surrendered or destroyed at repatriation; those that survived did so largely by accident, tucked into personal effects.