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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2045467, member: 32619&quot;]This is actually kind of hard to answer. Different bases minted their own issues at different times. The ones posted in this thread were for a base in the continental United States so there would be no shipping charges for moving it overseas, and I&#039;m thinking these issues are from the 1930s. I think...and I&#039;m not 100% on this...that these tokens were part of the club system that involved extending lines of credit to the troops between paydays. Overseas issues make sense that they wouldn&#039;t want to ship quantities of coins overseas and in fact, that is what the US was doing in 2001-present in the Middle East, but if that&#039;s what happened I don&#039;t really know. I do know that on base a variety of currency and coinage was used and circulating at the same time. For example, you could go to the club and buy a burger for $1.50 and hand the clerk a $5 bill. In change you could receive dollars, US coins, or tokens, or a mixture. I&#039;m hoping Ray Bows book will shed a little more light on their actual use.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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