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5 Cents Tokyo Ordnance Depot
| Issuer | Tokyo Ordnance Depot, N.C.O. Mess |
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| Year | 1946-1957 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on beige paper; text arranged in three lines at centre-left with a small decorative leaf sprig motif flanking the A.P.O. 712 line. A red alphanumeric serial appears below the caution notice at lower left. The denomination numeral and unit are set within a bold double-rule box at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | TOKYO ORDNANCE DEPOT N. C. O. MESS A P. O. 712 NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 5 CENTS |
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Messes and canteens operated by U.S. military units in occupied and post-occupation Japan issued their own scrip to keep dollar currency within controlled channels — part of a broader effort to suppress black market conversion into yen. The Tokyo Ordnance Depot N.C.O. Mess scrip circulated among non-commissioned officers stationed at the depot during the occupation and into the treaty period, redeemable only within that specific facility. These unit-level issues were never centrally catalogued during their active life, and most were discarded or destroyed when the mess closed.
Survival rates are low precisely because nobody thought to keep them.