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50 Cents Camp Ashby; PoW Camp
| Issuer | United States Army (Prisoner of War Camp) |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Value | 50 Cents (0.50 USD) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENTS PRISONER OF WAR BRANCH CAMP CAMP ASHBY. VIRGINIA NOT GOOD IF DETACHED |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely blank, printed on plain green paper with no text, vignette, or additional markings. |
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Camp Ashby was a World War II prisoner of war facility in Virginia, one of hundreds of temporary camps established across the American interior under the Geneva Convention framework, which required that prisoners be paid for labor in scrip redeemable only within the camp system — not in U.S. currency. This note is that scrip. The arrangement was deliberate: camp money prevented escape funds from accumulating and kept prisoner economies self-contained.
Sick & Bischoff catalog reference S&B#1056 places this within the documented Virginia camp issues. These notes were produced cheaply and destroyed in bulk at war's end, which makes intact survivors genuinely uncommon despite the large prisoner populations most camps held.