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10 Lire 956th Air Engineering Squadron
| Issuer | 956th Air Engineering Squadron E.M. Club |
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| Year | 1944-1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with black letterpress print throughout. The denomination "Lire 10" is set in large bold serif type at center, with the issuing authority "E. M. CLUB" in spaced capitals above and "956th A. E. S." below. A row of small dots forms a decorative border along the upper edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | E. M. CLUB Lire 10 956th A. E. S. |
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Military Payment Scrip issued by an American enlisted men's club — not an official MPC series but a unit-level convenience currency, used internally to run a cash economy within the club without putting official dollars into circulation. These squadron-level scrips were printed informally, often locally, and the issuing authority had no legal standing to produce currency of any kind. Most were destroyed after the unit disbanded or rotated out.
The 956th Air Engineering Squadron was a USAAF maintenance unit. That these notes survived at all is largely accidental.