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5 Shillings Green Point Track P.O.W. Camp
| Issuer | Green Point Track Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1899-1902 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown on grey-green paper. A heraldic coat of arms vignette occupies the upper centre, flanked on each side by the denomination numeral '5/-' set within decorative cartouches. A bold rectangular panel bearing the legend 'FIVE SHILLINGS STERLING' in block letterpress runs across the centre. Below, the terms of payment and the canteen manager's name and title are rendered in cursive script. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain grey-green paper; obverse design shows through as a faint mirror-image impression. |
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Green Point Track, on the Cape Flats outside Cape Town, held Boer prisoners captured during the early phase of the Anglo-Boer War. The camp operated its own canteen system, and these scrip notes were the mechanism for controlling purchasing within it — prisoners received credit rather than cash, spending it only within camp boundaries. Barnes served as canteen superintendent, and his signature was the sole authorization these notes carried.
P.O.W. canteen issues from this conflict are among the rarest South African paper money. Most were redeemed and destroyed at the close of hostilities, and surviving examples almost never surface with documentation tracing their original holder.