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Message:: [QUOTE="ctrl, post: 369266, member: 13378"]Coincidence! I have one of the blue ones that is in a group of tokens I'm tasked with learning more about this week. <a href="http://www.fantasticprices.com/token/opa.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fantasticprices.com/token/opa.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fantasticprices.com/token/opa.html</a> <ul> <li> OPA stands for Office of Price Administration </li> <li> First issued in 1942 </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'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> </ul>[/QUOTE]