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5 Cents Atlanta; PoW Camp Exchange
| Issuer | Prisoner of War Camp Exchange, Atlanta, Nebraska |
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| Year | 1944-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on buff paper in black ink, with a bold sans-serif denomination panel reading 'US 5 CENTS' enclosed within a rectangular ruled border and flanked by stars at each upper corner; the issuing authority is arranged in three lines to the right, with an alphanumeric serial number printed in red below. A cautionary legend is contained within its own ruled border along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, presenting a plain buff paper surface devoid of any design, text, or ornamentation. |
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American PoW camp scrip occupies a strange corner of notaphily. Under the Geneva Convention, captured enemy personnel were entitled to receive pay — and the U.S. Army complied, issuing non-negotiable scrip redeemable only within camp canteen systems to prevent the currency from entering the civilian economy. Atlanta, Nebraska held German prisoners during the latter war years, part of a sprawling network of Midwest agricultural camps where detainees were contracted out as farm labor.
The Cambridge reference Camb#7547 places this among the better-documented camp issues, though survival rates for low-denomination scrip are poor — small values changed hands constantly and wore out fast.