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5 Cents Airmen's "21" Club
| Issuer | Airmen's "21" Club, Lakenheath |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red card stock with black letterpress print throughout. The left panel carries the club name and location in bold sans-serif capitals above a ruled divider, with the validity warning in italic script at lower left and a serial number in red below. The right panel contains a boxed denomination numeral "5" above the unit "CENTS". |
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| Obverse lettering | AIRMEN'S "21" CLUB LAKENHEATH NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 5 CENTS |
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RAF Lakenheath, now better known as a USAF base, hosted various service clubs during its postwar transition to American operation in the early 1950s. The Airmen's "21" Club issued scrip like this for on-base canteen and recreational spending — a common practice that kept money circulating within the facility rather than leaking into the local Suffolk economy.
Red paper was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure in club scrip: cheap to produce differently from standard currency, difficult to reproduce on the copying technology of the period.