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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3140665, member: 66"]If you are referring to the red OPA tokens, those were not mils, those were "points". Every rationed food item had a certain amount of "points" assigned to it in addition to its price. these points would be paid using ration stamps from the ration book issued to you. If you didn't have the proper stamps or enough points (typically each stamp was worth 10 points) you couldn't buy the item no matter how much money you had. If the required number of points was an odd amount you would get your "change" in the red and blue tokens, These tokens could be used to pay the point values for rationed food items as well. The red tokens were good for certain classes of items and the blue ones for a different class, They were NOT interchangable. Red points were good for fats and meat, Blue were for processed foods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3140665, member: 66"]If you are referring to the red OPA tokens, those were not mils, those were "points". Every rationed food item had a certain amount of "points" assigned to it in addition to its price. these points would be paid using ration stamps from the ration book issued to you. If you didn't have the proper stamps or enough points (typically each stamp was worth 10 points) you couldn't buy the item no matter how much money you had. If the required number of points was an odd amount you would get your "change" in the red and blue tokens, These tokens could be used to pay the point values for rationed food items as well. The red tokens were good for certain classes of items and the blue ones for a different class, They were NOT interchangable. Red points were good for fats and meat, Blue were for processed foods.[/QUOTE]
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