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<p>[QUOTE="Jwt708, post: 2125509, member: 32619"]Ok guys here's a lot I got with my eBay bucks. What I'm also interested in is the message attached to the holder. I asked but the seller didn't know the history. There appear to be some errors with the label: Yohota likely was meant to be Yokota, different bases used tokens at different times into at least as late as 1988 or 1989, and Kanto Base Command looks like it didn't come into being until 1962 after Tachikawa AB lost it's flying mission, and these tokens are not MPC. The label is correct that eventually tokens were withdrawn and destroyed - sometimes by being tossed into a river like in Vietnam or buried in the desert like in New Mexico. I think the label also got the acronoym K.B.M.A.O.M correct. Anyway...I would get out the ole' Cunningham...but you know...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the tokens:</p><p>(photos courtesy of eBay seller neilcoin, edited by me)</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/kanto-ab-jp.2675/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jwt708, post: 2125509, member: 32619"]Ok guys here's a lot I got with my eBay bucks. What I'm also interested in is the message attached to the holder. I asked but the seller didn't know the history. There appear to be some errors with the label: Yohota likely was meant to be Yokota, different bases used tokens at different times into at least as late as 1988 or 1989, and Kanto Base Command looks like it didn't come into being until 1962 after Tachikawa AB lost it's flying mission, and these tokens are not MPC. The label is correct that eventually tokens were withdrawn and destroyed - sometimes by being tossed into a river like in Vietnam or buried in the desert like in New Mexico. I think the label also got the acronoym K.B.M.A.O.M correct. Anyway...I would get out the ole' Cunningham...but you know... Here's the tokens: (photos courtesy of eBay seller neilcoin, edited by me) [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/media/kanto-ab-jp.2675/full[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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