50 Centesimi Renicci - n.97

Renicci was one of the more isolated Italian POW camps, situated near Anghiari in Tuscany and used primarily to intern Yugoslav partisans and political prisoners — a population the Italian authorities were reluctant to mix with military POWs held elsewhere. The camp scrip issued here was a control mechanism as much as a monetary one, restricting what prisoners could acquire and preventing any accumulation of negotiable currency that might fund escape attempts.

Campbell 6173 is among the scarcer denominations from this camp. Most Renicci scrip was either destroyed at liberation in 1943 or confiscated; survivor-held examples account for nearly all known specimens.