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| Emittent | 58th Australian Dental Unit, Officers' Mess |
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| Jahr | 1943-1945 |
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| Nennwert | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Plain buff paper with black letterpress print throughout. The unit designation '58th A.D.U.' is set in bold serif type at top, flanked above and below by dotted rule borders. 'Officers' Mess' appears at left centre with the large denomination numeral '1D' at right. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | 58th A.D.U. Officers' Mess 1D |
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| Anmerkungen |
Officers' mess scrip issued by Australian military units in the Pacific theatre was a practical workaround for the chronic small-change shortage that plagued forward areas throughout the war. The 58th Australian Dental Unit's 1 Penny note sits in a narrow category of hyper-local military scrip — not issued by a bank, a formal pay corps, or even a divisional headquarters, but by a single unit's mess account.
The issuing authority here is genuinely unusual. Dental units were small, semi-independent formations, and their officers' messes operated on tight, informal ledgers. Scrip like this rarely survived the unit's disbandment.