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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Honolulu Dick, post: 993218, member: 24745&quot;]That&#039;s about the most beautiful nickle I&#039;ve ever seen!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Picked it up with a couple of others, huh?&nbsp; Will you kindly share those &quot;others&quot; with us also?</p><p><br /></p><p>The Big Red One is right.&nbsp; We hated having to use that funny-money.&nbsp; You would use a clean $1 MPC to buy a cold beer in a club.&nbsp; The barkeep would lay you change on the bar where it became soaked with spilled beer.&nbsp; Then he refused to accept the soggy change in payment for your next beer.&nbsp; It got to the point where you bought four beers for the dollar, kept one for yourself and passed the others along to your buddies.&nbsp; In turn, they would do the same for you.&nbsp; After weeks of humping under triple canopy jungle, slogging through chest deep water of mangrove swamps and wading through the foot-sucking, energy draining mud or rice paddies, you couldn&#039;t care less about a couple dollars worth of MPC.&nbsp; All you cared about was sleep and drinking as much of that good, cold beer as you could handle.&nbsp; As the war progressed and base camp facilities became permanent, the clubs went modern and started selling their own tokens.&nbsp; The tokens felt like real coins, didn&#039;t get soggy and could be used in the vending machines that started showing up in the bigger PX facilities.&nbsp; They were an instant success. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is noted that Series 661 was issued on 21OCT68 and withdrawn on 11AUG69, a relatively short period to be authorized for circulation.&nbsp; This followed the surge of the troop build-up and the free spending GIs having created rampant inflation in the local economy.&nbsp; Question: does the duration of authorization have any effect on the value of any given series?&nbsp; Just curious.</p><p><br /></p><p>You did good.&nbsp; Good on you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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