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5 Yen - P.O.W. Canteen Ticket
| Issuer | Taiwan Prisoner of War Camps |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Value | 5 Yen |
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| Obverse description | Plain blue letterpress printing on cream paper within a decorative blue floral-motif border running the full perimeter. The denomination 五圓券 (5 Yen) is printed in large Chinese characters at centre, with the issuance legend 發行第 號 at upper centre and the full institutional title 臺灣俘虜收容所酒保購入券 (Taiwan P.O.W. Canteen Purchase Ticket) in a single line at lower centre. An orange circular control handstamp is applied at upper left. |
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| Reverse lettering | No. 5 YEN P.O.W. Canteen Ticket |
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Issued for use within Japanese-administered prisoner of war camps in Taiwan during the Pacific War, these canteen scrip notes were part of a broader Japanese military policy of providing captive Allied personnel with nominal purchasing power — theoretically allowing them to buy supplementary food or comfort items through camp-controlled canteens. In practice, the canteen system varied wildly between camps, and in many facilities almost nothing of substance was available to purchase.
The handstamp serves as the sole security feature, which tells you exactly how provisional these were. They had no life outside the wire.