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10 Lire PoW Camp 31
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra n. 31 |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed voucher on cream paper, divided by a vertical rule into a left stub bearing the denomination 'L. 10' and a sequential serial number field above, and a wider right panel carrying the camp heading at top, the large-face value legend 'Buono per Lire 10' in the centre, a square box inscribed 'Bollo del Campo' for the camp stamp, and a dotted signature line captioned 'Il Comandante del Campo'. A circular camp administrative cachet is applied in blue ink overlapping the stamp box and signature area, with the validity notice printed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing plain cream paper stock with no text, imagery, or overprint of any kind. |
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Italian prisoner of war camps operated their own internal scrip systems during the Second World War to prevent detainees from accumulating currency that could fund escape attempts or be spent outside the wire. Campo n. 31 was one of several camps that issued denominated paper vouchers redeemable only within the compound — usable at the canteen, for personal items, nothing more. The system had a precedent in WWI Italian internment practice, but the WWII camp scrip series was more systematically organized across facilities.
These notes rarely survived repatriation. Most were surrendered or simply discarded at liberation.