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0.05 Lire Bogliaco; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra di Bogliaco |
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| Year | 1939-1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed voucher on cream paper, with the full camp title in bold type across the upper portion and the denomination 'BUONO per L. 0,05' in large text to the left. A violet circular handstamp of the camp appears at left, alongside a manuscript serial number; the commandant's handwritten signature appears to the right of the denomination line. The restriction notice is printed along the lower margin, with the serial number repeated at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blank face bearing faint show-through of the obverse text and a rough pencil sketch of what appears to be a ship or boat, likely drawn by a prisoner; the paper is aged and toned to a pale yellow with visible fold lines. |
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Bogliaco, on the western shore of Lake Garda, housed one of Italy's wartime prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War. The camp issued its own internal scrip denominated in fractional lire — a common arrangement intended to give prisoners limited purchasing power within the camp canteen while preventing Italian currency from accumulating in unauthorized hands.
Campbell 6313 places this among the documented Italian PoW camp issues, a category where survival rates vary sharply depending on whether prisoners kept notes as souvenirs or spent them into oblivion before repatriation.