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1 Penny Adelaide University Regiment
| Issuer | Adelaide University Regiment |
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| Year | 1948-1966 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey paper with black letterpress print only, no vignette or ornamental elements. The issuer abbreviation "A.U.R." appears at top centre, followed by "Officers' Mess" in bold serif type, with the denomination "1d." in large bold numerals at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | A.U.R. Officers' Mess 1d. |
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The Adelaide University Regiment mess tokens — the "penny" denomination among them — occupied a narrow institutional niche: quasi-monetary instruments used within the regimental canteen or mess, not legal tender in any sense and never intended for general circulation. Australian university regiment tokens of this period are among the more obscure categories in Australasian notaphily, frequently overlooked precisely because their issuing bodies sat outside the formal banking and military paymaster systems.
The eighteen-year span of dates reflects reissue across multiple intake years rather than a single print run — mess chits of this type were typically reprinted in small batches as stock depleted.