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3 Pence Palace Internment Camp
| Issuer | Palace Internment Camp |
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| Year | 1940-1942 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-coloured card stock with a vertical line of circular perforation holes along the left margin. Typeset letterpress text in black gives the series prefix and serial number at top, issuer name centred below, and denomination expressed three times across the lower portion as numerals flanking the spelled-out word. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1K Palace Internment Camp 3d. THREEPENCE 3d. |
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Palace Internment Camp was one of several civilian internment facilities established in Britain during the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B, which allowed detention without trial of individuals deemed a security risk — primarily enemy aliens and British fascist sympathizers. Camp scrip of this kind was a practical necessity: internees needed a means of exchange for canteen purchases, but could not be permitted to hold sterling that might facilitate escape or external communication.
The 3 Pence denomination is the smallest in the Palace series. Camp-issued scrip from this period was printed in small runs under improvised conditions, and most was destroyed or discarded at repatriation. Survivors are scarce for that reason alone.