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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 165479, member: 669&quot;]The use of fiber, caused by wartime shortages, may have been based on the earlier use by the US of the same material for the production of &quot;red point&quot; and &quot;blue point&quot; rationing tokens.&nbsp; Each family had an allottment of red points for meat and blue points for other restricted foodstuffs, including sugar.&nbsp; Booklets of multi-point stamps (10 if I recall correctly) were issued, and the fiber tokens were used by merchants to &quot;make change&quot;.&nbsp; Those tokens are another form of collectible exonumia.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After I unload the pictures taken on my recent vacation trip, I&#039;ll try taking pictures of some Manchukuo coins, and some ration tokens and post them in this thread, but since the markings are depressions in a paper-like material the tokens are very difficult to photograph, and just about impossible to scan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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