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2 Shillings Green Point Track Camp
| Issuer | Green Point Track Prisoner of War Camp |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on pale blue paper. The Cape Colony coat-of-arms vignette is centred at the top, flanked on each side by a rectangular panel bearing the denomination figure '2/=' above the legend 'GOOD' (left) and 'FOR' (right). A horizontal oval cartouche below carries the inscription 'TWO SHILLINGS STERLING' in bold letterpress. Beneath, a cursive script text reads 'Payable on demand to Prisoners of War only at the canteen Green Point Track', followed by the manuscript signature 'C. W. Barnes' and the printed title 'MANAGER.' |
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| Signature(s) | C. W. Barnes |
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Green Point Track, on the Cape Flats outside Cape Town, was one of the first large Boer prisoner-of-war camps established by the British during the South African War. By mid-1900, the camp held several thousand men, and a token currency was introduced to allow internal trade while keeping British coin out of POW hands — standard British camp practice that was applied here earlier than at most other South African sites.
C. W. Barnes, whose signature appears as issuing authority, was the camp commandant. His personally signed camp scrip is among the rarest categories of South African military emergency paper, with Green Point issues in any denomination seldom surfacing at auction.