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2 Pence Camp Hay
| Issuer | Camp Hay |
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| Year | 1940-1941 |
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| Value | 2 Pence (1⁄120) |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress vignette at centre, showing a hut outline with the denomination numeral '2D' superimposed within a circular underprint. Legends 'TWO' and 'PENCE' flank the vignette vertically on left and right respectively, set against a ruled border. Black serial number printed above the vignette; two manuscript signatures appear at bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | TWO PENCE 2D |
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Camp Hay was an Australian internment camp near Hay, New South Wales, established in 1940 to hold civilian internees — primarily Jewish and other refugees from German-occupied Europe who had arrived in Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. The bitter irony was not lost on the internees: men who had fled Nazi persecution were classified as "enemy aliens" and imprisoned. The camp's internal scrip system was introduced to allow purchasing within the compound while preventing internees from accumulating Australian currency that could facilitate escape.
The Dunera internees included a remarkable concentration of academics, artists, and professionals, and camp life was reportedly more intellectually organized than most wartime internment.