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<p>[QUOTE="George McClellan, post: 3575399, member: 92441"]<i>CT-searched "OPA Tokens". "OPA" is too short a word for CT-search</i>.</p><p>The following URLs contain info <b>actual "in-store moment of use".</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b> </b>...there are two different types red tokens and blue tokens. Each was worth one ration point. The tokens were used to "make change" for the fixed value stamps from your rationing book. Before they were issued, if you bought an item that required say 8 ration points and you gave them the stamp from your book which was worth 10 points, you lost those other two points. After they came out you would get the tokens in change and you could accumulate them and use them like the stamps. </p><p><br /></p><p> These ration booklets contained various small stamps which had no cash value, but were required to purchase food items — for example four "B" stamps for each pound of ground beef or five "A" stamps for a bag of sugar. All store items had a price marked as well as a ration book stamp requirement. So every purchase had to also include the right number of ration stamps. </p><p> The price of the item was not a factor in the use of these stamps. However, to make exact change, shopkeepers were issued small red and or blue tokens. They were made of a vulcanized fiber and were 16-mm in diameter. These basically were "small change" for stamps from ration books. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/coins/soltaylor080908.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/coins/soltaylor080908.html" rel="nofollow">https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/coins/soltaylor080908.html</a></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/443870/opa-tokens" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/443870/opa-tokens" rel="nofollow">https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/443870/opa-tokens</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="George McClellan, post: 3575399, member: 92441"][I]CT-searched "OPA Tokens". "OPA" is too short a word for CT-search[/I]. The following URLs contain info [B]actual "in-store moment of use". [/B]...there are two different types red tokens and blue tokens. Each was worth one ration point. The tokens were used to "make change" for the fixed value stamps from your rationing book. Before they were issued, if you bought an item that required say 8 ration points and you gave them the stamp from your book which was worth 10 points, you lost those other two points. After they came out you would get the tokens in change and you could accumulate them and use them like the stamps. These ration booklets contained various small stamps which had no cash value, but were required to purchase food items — for example four "B" stamps for each pound of ground beef or five "A" stamps for a bag of sugar. All store items had a price marked as well as a ration book stamp requirement. So every purchase had to also include the right number of ration stamps. The price of the item was not a factor in the use of these stamps. However, to make exact change, shopkeepers were issued small red and or blue tokens. They were made of a vulcanized fiber and were 16-mm in diameter. These basically were "small change" for stamps from ration books. [URL]https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/coins/soltaylor080908.html[/URL] [URL]https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/443870/opa-tokens[/URL][/QUOTE]
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