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5 Sen - P.O.W. Canteen Ticket
| Issuer | Taiwan Prisoner of War Camp (臺灣俘虜收容所) |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Reference(s) | S&B#2062 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed ticket in red ink, contained within a single rectangular border. A manuscript issue number appears at the upper portion, accompanied by an orange circular handstamp at right. The denomination 五錢券 is set in large Chinese characters at centre, with the full institutional inscription 臺灣俘虜收容所酒保購入券 printed in smaller characters along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 発行第1780号 五錢券 臺灣俘虜收容所酒保購入券 (Translation: Issue No. 1780 5 SEN P.O.W. Canteen Ticket, Taiwan) |
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These canteen tickets were issued by Japanese military authorities to Allied prisoners held in Taiwan camps during the Pacific War — a system ostensibly complying with Geneva Convention requirements that prisoners be permitted to purchase goods. In practice, the canteen stock was thin, often nonexistent, and the scrip functioned more as a bureaucratic formality than a functional currency. Officers received small wage disbursements in this form under the convention's provisions; other ranks rarely saw it at all.
Surviving examples are genuinely uncommon. Few prisoners had reason or means to preserve them, and most camp documentation — including scrip — was destroyed or abandoned in the chaos of the August 1945 surrender.