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<p>[QUOTE="lettow, post: 1124704, member: 6986"]Rocky Rockholt and Tom Conklin wrote a book on Food Stamps and Food Coupons in around 2001 or so. It was privately published in a limited quantity of 100. I was lucky enough to pull one off Ebay about 5 years ago. It gives background, history, the meaning of the monthly letter codes, serial number ranges, etc. for all the series up until the time it was done. There are no prices in the catalog because they were illegal to possess at the time it was written. Scarcity is going to be anyone's guess since there is probably no way to determine how many went unredeemed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or is there? Perhaps a FOIA request to the USDA asking for the number of Food Coupons issued and the number redeemed by series and denomination may be in order. I don't know whether they tracked the number with that specificity. The best you would probably find is total dollars of each series issued and annual reports of the amounts redeemed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rockholt and Conklin's production and serial number information is based on BEP and USDA records.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lettow, post: 1124704, member: 6986"]Rocky Rockholt and Tom Conklin wrote a book on Food Stamps and Food Coupons in around 2001 or so. It was privately published in a limited quantity of 100. I was lucky enough to pull one off Ebay about 5 years ago. It gives background, history, the meaning of the monthly letter codes, serial number ranges, etc. for all the series up until the time it was done. There are no prices in the catalog because they were illegal to possess at the time it was written. Scarcity is going to be anyone's guess since there is probably no way to determine how many went unredeemed. Or is there? Perhaps a FOIA request to the USDA asking for the number of Food Coupons issued and the number redeemed by series and denomination may be in order. I don't know whether they tracked the number with that specificity. The best you would probably find is total dollars of each series issued and annual reports of the amounts redeemed. Rockholt and Conklin's production and serial number information is based on BEP and USDA records.[/QUOTE]
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