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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 206475, member: 6641&quot;]<b>OPA&#039;s</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Three red tokens came with this group of coins.&nbsp; Just figured out what they are:&nbsp;&nbsp; (Barrowed from this web site <a href="http://www.fantasticprices.com/token/Tokens.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fantasticprices.com/token/Tokens.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fantasticprices.com/token/Tokens.html</a>)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><b>OPA</b> </p> <p style="text-align: center">Tokens used for rationing during World War II </p> <p style="text-align: center">There are 30 different red tokens and 24 blue ones. </p> <p style="text-align: center">They are all celluloid and 16mm in size. </p> <p style="text-align: center">Blue ones read: OPA Blue Point 1 (with two different letters) </p> <p style="text-align: center">Red ones read: OPA Red Point 1 (with two different letters)</p> </p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">BRIEF HISTORY </font></font></font></b></p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>OPA stands for Office of Price Administration</li> <li>First issued in 1944</li> <li>Stopped being issued in 1945</li> <li>Used to ration retail items during the end of WWII. The items rationed included canned goods, meats, sugar, coffee, tires, gas and more.</li> <li>Nobody has found a true reason for the letters on the OPA&#039;s. Theories include, they are random; demographics; and prevention of counterfitting.</li> <li>Red letter combinations known. HC, HT, MV, MM, TH, TY, UC, UH, UT, UV, UX, UY, VC, VH, VT, VU, VX, VY, XC, XH, XT, XU, XV, XY, YC, YH, YT, YU, YV, YX.</li> <li>Blue letter combinations known. CC, CH, CT, CV, CX, HH, HU, HV, HX, HY, TC, TT, TU, TV, TX, UU, VV, WC, WH, WT, WU, WW, XX, YY</li> <li>The rarest is the red MV. The next rarest are the red MM and the blue WW, WC, WH. Then blue WU, HX and red YC, XC. The rest are fairly easy to find. Reds are a lot more common than blues.</li> <li><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Error OPAs are worth a little more.</font></font> </font></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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