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25 Centimes P.O.W. Cage
| Issuer | P.O.W. Cage Canteen |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#4885 |
| Obverse description | Plain yellow-buff paper canteen voucher with all text printed by letterpress in black. Three horizontal rules divide the face into sections bearing the issuer title "P. O. W. Cage" at top, "CANTEEN" in bold capitals at centre, and the denomination "25 centimes" at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | P. O. W. Cage CANTEEN 25 centimes |
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Prisoner of war camp canteen scrip occupies one of the more unglamorous corners of military notaphily, but it served a real administrative function: preventing captured soldiers from accumulating currency that could fund escape attempts. This 25 centimes piece was almost certainly issued in a French or Belgian theater camp — the centime denomination points firmly to francophone accounting, not British or German camp systems, which used their own internal units.
The Cambridge reference is the primary authority here; documentation on individual cage canteens is sparse, and issuing unit records were rarely preserved after armistice.