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10 Marks Köyliö; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Prisoner of War Camp, Köyliö (Finland) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on cream paper. Large numeral '10' at centre, flanked by oak-leaf sprays forming an open wreath, with decorative pilasters at left and right margins. Denomination banner across the top, 'КУПОН' vertically at left, and the camp commandant's title below the wreath. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse plain, printed on cream paper with no design or text. |
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Köyliö was a Finnish prisoner of war camp holding Soviet captives during the Continuation War. Finnish PoW camps issued internal scrip to control purchasing within camp canteens and prevent hoarding of Finnish currency — a practical administrative measure, not a formal monetary instrument. The Camif reference corpus documents relatively few Finnish PoW issues, and the Köyliö series is among the lesser-documented, with surviving pieces thin on the ground given the obviously limited production runs and the destruction of camp records after the war ended in 1944.