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Voucher - 1 Penny Hay Camp 7; Confinement Voucher
| Issuer | Camp Seven Bank, Internment Camp Hay |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Pound (1788-1966) |
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| Obverse description | Plain green card stock with black letterpress text throughout. The denomination "P One Penny" is printed in large bold type at upper right, above the issuer name "CAMP SEVEN BANK", with "VALUE" inscribed above. A sequential serial number prefixed "No" appears at left, and "INTERNMENT CAMP HAY" is printed at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALUE P One Penny CAMP SEVEN BANK INTERNMENT CAMP HAY |
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Hay Camp 7 was one of three internment camps established at Hay, New South Wales, to house civilian internees transferred from Britain under the deportation scheme of 1940 — a politically fraught arrangement in which the Australian government found itself holding thousands of refugees, many of them Jewish Germans and Austrians fleeing Nazi persecution, alongside actual enemy aliens and prisoners of war. The camp bank system was designed to prevent real currency from circulating inside the wire, so vouchers like this one substituted for legal tender within the compound economy.
Printed locally at Hay rather than through any government contract printer, the production quality reflects the improvised origins of the whole scheme. Camb#1210 is among the lower denominations in the Camp Seven series.