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10 Cents Vint Hill Farms Station; Officers' Open Mess
| Issuer | Officers' Open Mess, Vint Hill Farms Station |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on tan paper with a plain border frame. The denomination numeral '10' appears in a bold inset panel at right, with 'CENTS' below. A red hand-stamped serial number is positioned centrally, accompanied by a row of cancellation punch holes. Warning text 'Void if detached' appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted tan paper reverse bearing only the residual impression of cancellation punch holes visible through from the obverse, arranged in a rectangular pattern consistent with a perforation cancellation device. |
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Vint Hill Farms Station in Warrenton, Virginia was a U.S. Army signals intelligence installation — one of the earliest SIGINT facilities on American soil, activated in 1942 to intercept Axis communications. Scrip of this kind was a practical solution to a specific problem: keeping currency flows contained within a classified installation minimized the risk of personnel carrying cash off-post and potentially compromising the facility's existence or location.
Officers' mess scrip from wartime SIGINT postings survives in tiny quantities. The men who used it weren't supposed to discuss where they worked.