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1.50 Rials Camp Amirabad
| Issuer | Amirabad Officers' Mess |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper with black letterpress print. A dense rectangular border of fine vertical rules frames the face. Inscriptions are arranged in three tiers: the issuer title at top, the coupon designation at centre, and the denomination in bold type at foot, with the booklet sequence number (1/50) in parentheses above. |
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| Obverse lettering | AMIRABAD OFFICERS' MESS Bar Coupon (1/50) ONE & HALF RIALS |
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Camp Amirabad was a U.S. Army installation north of Tehran, operational from 1942 as part of the Persian Corridor supply route funneling Lend-Lease materiel into the Soviet Union. The Officers' Mess scrip in this denomination — an awkward 1.50 Rials that has no equivalent in standard Iranian coinage or banknote series — points directly to the practical realities of running a canteen economy where change in local currency was chronically unavailable and small transactions needed a medium the host nation's banking system couldn't efficiently supply.
Mess scrip of this type was redeemable only within the camp and had no legal standing outside it.