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I know little about them other than that they can be quite valuable.
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 really? yay I think he deserves a little pressie then.
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Thanks :) I never knew they were so rare !
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Nice coins ,quite valuable. A part of our dark days in history when we put certain races into concentration camps. It wasn't only the Poms ( they invented these during the Boer war) or the Nazi-es, We did the same to German Italian and Japanese in this country during the 2nd world war  This not something most Australians are proud of  But as an end result these coins are highly sought after and are quite valuable because of their rarity. |
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Edited by appleangel07
08/29/2012 05:57 am
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Thats is quite true trout!!
Thanks appleangel7 :) I never knew these had any value whats so ever.
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They are token, not coins, aren't they?
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They are token, not coins, aren't they? Yes they are but they are listed in Maccas. They were the only form of coinage that the "Internees" were allowed to use, Thus That makes then rare and scarce due to the low mintage of these form of coinage 
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Being only young I was not aware of internment camps until about 2 years ago when I saw these tokens and investigated a little. I was quite shocked. Throughout school world and Australian history, and inevitably WWI and II were studied yet internment camps were not once mentioned. It really is a darker part of Australian history.
The little I do know about these tokens has bme remembering that they were discontinued pretty quick after the first minting as there was a barney over non official coinage being minted and used in Australia.
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Thats very interesting!
i am 19 years old and didn't even learn history at school :/
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They are token, not coins, aren't they?
Yes they are but they are listed in Maccas.
...they were discontinued pretty quick after the first minting as there was a barney over non official coinage being minted and used in Australia.They are considered quasi-official tokens in that they were issued by a government entity, ie. the Army, which was responsible for operating the camps. The Army isn't constitutionally allowed to issue its own currency on Australian soil, a fact people turned a blind eye to during the wartime emergency, but the tokens were withdrawn promptly once the camp system was dismantled. On the subject of the camps, if you go to the western NSW town of Hay where the largest camps were located, you can visit the site of one of the larger camps. The old railway station next to the Camp site has a museum-like display inside some WWII-period railway carriages, featuring some tokens found on the site by metal detectorists and replicas of the extremely scarce "Camp Seven Bank" camp canteen notes as well as other camp memorabilia and stories of internees, most of whom had been shipped to Australia by the British. If you're passing through the area and have an interest in wartime history and/or numismatics, I recommend a visit.
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Posted 08/29/2012 05:16 am
