5 Centimes P.O.W. Cage

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.