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3 Pence Australian Staff Corps
| Issuer | Australian Staff Corps Mess, A.H.Q. |
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| Year | 1939-1945 |
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| Value | 3 Pence (1⁄80) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow paper. The official insignia badge of the Australian Staff Corps appears at left, with the face value at right against a wavy guilloche underprint background. |
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| Obverse lettering | 3d. AUSTRALIAN STAFF CORPS STAFF CORPS MESS A.H.Q. |
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Mess tokens in paper form are uncommon, and the Australian Staff Corps examples from the Second World War period occupy an odd niche — neither military scrip in the formal sense nor civilian currency, but internal instruments for canteen and mess accounting at Army Headquarters. The yellow paper distinguishes denominations within the series at a glance, a purely functional choice driven by the need for rapid handling across a busy mess operation.
These circulated in an exceptionally closed environment and were never intended to leave it, which is precisely why surviving examples are harder to locate than their humble face value suggests.