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0.50 Lire Bogliaco; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra di Bogliaco |
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| Year | 1939-1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on cream paper stock, the note is bisected vertically by a central fold line creating two distinct panels. The left panel bears a handstamp impression of the camp designation together with a serial number, while the right panel presents the full printed text with the denomination value in large bold type at centre, the commandant's title at upper right, and a handwritten ink signature below. A restriction notice in small capitals runs along the lower border of the right panel, with the serial number repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Campo Concentramento prigionieri di guerra di BOGLIACO Il Comandante del Campo BUONO per L. 0,50 VALE SOLO PRESSO LO SPACCIO DEL CAMPO (Translation: Prisoner of war concentration camp of Bogliaco. The Camp Commandant. Voucher for 0.50 lire. Valid only at the camp canteen.) |
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Bogliaco sits on the western shore of Lake Garda, and the camp there held Allied prisoners during the Second World War. Like many Italian PoW facilities, it issued its own internal scrip to allow limited canteen transactions while keeping hard currency out of prisoners' hands — standard Italian military practice under Circular 5510, which governed camp money across the peninsula.
These notes were printed locally, almost certainly in small runs on whatever stock was available, and were never intended to survive the war. Most were destroyed or surrendered at liberation. Surviving pieces are camp-specific and effectively unreplicable, which makes their scarcity structurally guaranteed rather than accidental.