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5 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#4883 |
| Obverse description | Plain yellowish paper canteen voucher with letterpress text arranged in three horizontal registers, separated by ruled lines: issuer inscription at top, denomination label at centre, and value at foot. No vignette or decorative underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | P. O. W. Cage CANTEEN 5 centimes |
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POW camp scrip from the First World War occupies one of the more legally ambiguous corners of emergency currency. Camp canteen notes were issued by the detaining power — in this case almost certainly under British or French military administration — to prevent prisoners from accumulating official coin that could fund escape attempts or be smuggled out. The 5 centimes denomination places this squarely in a French-administered or French-territory camp context.
Campbell 4883 is thinly documented. Surviving examples are rare simply because most scrip was demonetized and pulped at war's end.