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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2399379, member: 32619&quot;]It doesn&#039;t make a lot of sense to me either but here&#039;s some clarification:</p><p><br /></p><p>Overseas there was no U.S. coinage except what service members brought with them, especially in Vietnam. So to make change tokens were purchased from Japanese companies. </p><p><br /></p><p>The club system, both stateside and overseas, would extend credit after the tenth day of the month. The coinage was for use in the clubs and to operate the slot machines. The base or post exchanges which operated to sell goods to service members used them as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going to present day - there still isn&#039;t US coinage at bases in the war zones. They use POGs which are made of styrene because it&#039;s cheaper to ship those than coins. Here in England only the DoD bank and the Post Office has cents and the rest of the stores just round everything up or down. </p><p><br /></p><p>These forms of military monies go back to at least the Civil War with the sutler system.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this doesn&#039;t make sense let me know! I like to talk about them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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