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20 Centesimi Gruppignano; Pow Camp
| Issuer | Campo di Concentramento P.G. - Gruppignano |
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| Year | 1941-1943 |
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| Size | 69 x 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper with all text in black letterpress. The camp designation appears at top, underlined, followed by the fiduciary value in bold type at centre. Authority attribution and denomination in words appear at lower left and lower right respectively, the latter accompanied by a small decorative floral ornament. |
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| Obverse lettering | Campo Conc. P. G. - Gruppignano Buono fiduciario da L. 0.20 valevole soltanto nell'interno del campo di concentramento. IL COMANDANTE Centesimi Venti (Translation: Gruppignano POW concentration camp. Fiduciary voucher of L. 0.20 valid only inside the concentration camp. The Commander. Twenty centesimi.) |
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Gruppignano, located near Udine in the Friuli region, was one of Italy's largest prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War, holding primarily Yugoslav and later British and Commonwealth prisoners. The internal scrip issued there was a deliberate control mechanism — camp authorities restricted prisoners to denominated paper that could only be spent within the canteen system, preventing the accumulation of Italian currency and limiting escape financing.
The pink coloration distinguishes this 20 Centesimi value within the Gruppignano denomination series, a simple chromatic differentiation scheme used across the camp's scrip issues. These notes were never redeemable outside the wire.