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10 Cents Bunker Hill Air Force Base
| Issuer | Officers' Open Mess, Bunker Hill Air Force Base |
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| Year | 1954-1968 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on yellow paper. The left panel carries the mess institution name and location in bold sans-serif type, with a red serial number below a perforated detachment warning. The right panel, separated by a vertical rule, displays the denomination numeral and unit inscription within a plain rectangular border. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain yellow paper stock with a perforated edge visible along the top margin. |
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Bunker Hill AFB, situated outside Peru, Indiana, was a Strategic Air Command installation throughout the Cold War period. Officers' Open Mess scrip of this type was a closed-economy instrument — redeemable only within the mess facility itself, keeping dollars off the base exchange floor and giving the mess a degree of financial autonomy from the main post fund system. The yellow paper stock is characteristic of the denomination tier used across multiple SAC installations during this period, a color-coding convention that simplified cashier transactions at high volume.
The base was renamed Grissom AFB in 1968 following the Apollo 1 disaster, which effectively closes the window on this scrip's issue life.