1 Piastre Saigon; Japanese Internment Camp

Features

Location	French Indochina
Type	Confinement vouchers › Internment and prison vouchers
Year	1945
Value	1 Piastre (1 ICFP)
Currency	Piastre (1880-1952)
Composition	Paper
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 575812
References	Camb# 2338 Lance K. Campbell; 1993. Prisoner-of-War and Concentration Camp Money of the Twentieth Century (2^nd Edition). BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, United States. , S&B# 1275 Carlton Fredrick Schwan, Joseph E. Boling; 1995. World War II Remembered: History in your hands - a numismatic study. BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, United States. , KO/MU# 237 Maurice Kolsky, Maurice Muszynski; 1996. Les billets de la Banque de l'Indochine. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco.

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Obverse

Red print; yellow underprint. Handstamped.

Text in decorated border. Flowers in corners.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CAMP D'INTERNEMENT DE SAIGON
-CIVILS JAPONAIS-
1
BON POUR
UN ACHAT A LA CANTINE DU CAMP POUR UNE VALEUR DE
UNE PIASTRE
Le Conseiller Financier

Translation: Saigon Internment Camp. Japanese civilians. Good for a purchase at the camp canteen for a value of one piastre. The financial advisor.

Reverse

Red print; yellow underprint.

Text on guilloche at centre.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BON POUR
1
PIASTRE

Translation: Good for 1 piastre.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1945)

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