5 Lire Mortara - n.146

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.