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5 Lire Mortara - n.146
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento P.G. N. 146 (Prisoner of War Camp No. 146, Mortara) |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green paper voucher with perforated edges, printed by letterpress in black. Camp designation and military postal reference appear at top, with the denomination stated in large bold type at left. A circular official stamp is struck at left, and a handwritten signature of the Camp Commandant appears in violet ink above the validity restriction clause at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted light green paper reverse with perforated edges, showing fold lines and age-related foxing stains. No text or design elements are present; the plain surface bears only the natural texture and discoloration of the original paper stock. |
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Mortara's Campo di Concentramento P.G. N. 146 was one of dozens of Italian prisoner-of-war camps that issued internal scrip during the Second World War to control purchasing within camp canteens and limit contact between prisoners and the civilian economy. These notes had no value outside the wire. The 5 Lire denomination sits in the middle of the typical camp scrip range — enough to buy small canteen goods, not enough to matter if it found its way out.
Italian P.O.W. camp issues survive in varying quantities depending on how individual camps handled material at liberation. Mortara's scrip is among the more documented series, which is why it carries a Camb reference at all.