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1 Cent Sydney; H.M.A.S Kuttabul
| Issuer | H.M.A.S. Kuttabul Wardroom Mess |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light grey paper with black letterpress text. The issuing authority inscription appears in the upper right area, with the denomination numeral and cent symbol printed in a large bold typeface at centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | H.M.A.S. KUTTABUL WARDROOM MESS 1c |
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H.M.A.S. Kuttabul was not a ship but a shore establishment on Garden Island, Sydney, commissioned as a Royal Australian Navy base in 1943. Wardroom mess tokens and scrip of this type were internal currency — valid only within the officers' mess and worthless the moment a man was posted elsewhere. Paper scrip at the 1-cent denomination was purely functional, covering canteen transactions too small for coin.
Shore establishment mess issues are among the least documented of all Australian military fiscal material, rarely leaving the base and seldom surviving demobilisation.