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2 Lire Mortara - n.146
| Issuer | Campo di Concentramento P.G. N. 146 (Mortara) |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
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| Value | 2 Lire (2 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper canteen voucher with perforated edges, printed in black letterpress. A circular official camp stamp impression appears at left centre. The denomination 'BUONO per Lire 2,-' is set in bold type at left, with a manuscript signature of the camp commandant at right beneath the serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain pink paper with perforated edges on all sides and no text or design elements. |
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Campo di Concentramento P.G. N. 146 at Mortara was one of Italy's prisoner-of-war camps operating under the Regio Esercito during the Second World War. Scrip of this type was issued internally to allow prisoners to make purchases within the camp economy — a system mandated under Geneva Convention provisions governing the treatment of POWs, which Italy had ratified. The issuing authority is the camp itself, not any banking institution, which is why these pieces carry no central bank backing and exist entirely outside the formal monetary system.
Survival rates for Italian campo scrip are low. Much was discarded, destroyed at liberation, or simply disintegrated given the minimal paper quality used in wartime production.