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10 Dollars Military Payment Certificate
| Issuer | United States Military Payment Certificate |
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| Year | 1954-1958 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a classical female profile in right-facing intaglio portrait set within an oval frame at right, wearing a laurel wreath headband. The left panel carries a decorative floral guilloche border in rose, with denomination numeral 10 in each corner. A fine wavy-line underprint in green and ochre fills the centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Military Payment Certificate TEN DOLLARS FOR USE ONLY IN UNITED STATES MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS — BY UNITED STATES AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS. SERIES 521 10 in four corners |
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Military Payment Certificates were introduced after World War II specifically to prevent American servicemen's pay from feeding black markets in occupied or host nations. Series 521, which covers this note, circulated primarily in Japan, Korea, and parts of the Western Pacific during the mid-1950s — a period when dollar conversion abuse remained a persistent problem for U.S. military authorities.
Conversion days, when one MPC series was abruptly replaced overnight by another, were designed to freeze out unauthorized holders. Anyone not on base at the designated hour was simply left with worthless paper. Series 521 was retired in this manner in May 1958.