1 Penny Australian Staff Corps

Australian military messes issued their own scrip during World War II to manage canteen and bar accounts within closed military communities — this kept cash from leaking out of controlled environments and simplified accounting between pay periods. The Australian Staff Corps Mess at Army Headquarters, Canberra, was among the more administratively formal of these issuers, which likely accounts for the scrip being produced at all rather than settled through ledger entries alone.

Mess scrip of this type was never legal tender and had no value outside the issuing unit. Most was destroyed at cessation, making survivors genuinely uncommon.