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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2040297, member: 32619&quot;]When I first deployed to the middle east I discovered that we don&#039;t use coins on base but AAFES POGs instead. These POGs are made of styrene and have a picture on one side and a value on the other (first printings did not have a picture). Cheaper to make these then to ship bags of coins. AAFES treats them like gift cards. Anyway, I got a couple in change that I neglected to spend before I left. When I got back to the US I tried to spend them but the cashier had never seen them before and said she&#039;d have to get a manager and I told her to forget it. This was all before I was a coin collector. Those POGs ended up with my challenge coins and were forgotten about until I read &quot;A Concise Catalog of U.S. Military Payment Certificates&quot; by Carlson R. Chambilss where he dedicates a chapter to the POGs.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, a friend of mine from work has a mild interest in silver/coins and somehow I got to mentioning POGs and he said he had some. I offered to buy them and yesterday he brought them in, 89 in total! He offered them for face value but I paid a little extra. Anyway, below are scans of the POGs that I bought from him. <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/aafes-5.2164/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/pogs-from-gill-5.2168/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/aafes-10.2165/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/pogs-from-gill-10.2169/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/aafes-25.2163/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/pogs-from-gill-25.2166/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/pogs-from-gill-25-second.2167/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>(Dang dog...should have looked a little closer at these scans last night)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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