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10 Rials USASTRATCOM Open Mess
| Issuer | USASTRATCOM Open Mess, Tehran, Iran |
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| Year | 1960-1979 |
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| Value | 10 Rials (10 IRR) |
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| Obverse description | Red card stock with black letterpress text arranged in two panels; left panel bears the issuer name and location within a dotted-border box with a serial number in red below, and the lower-left corner carries the void notice; right panel displays the denomination numeral and currency unit in bold type. |
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| Obverse lettering | USASTRATCOM OPEN MESS TEHRAN, IRAN Void if detached 10 RIALS |
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The U.S. Army Strategic Communications Command maintained a substantial signals and communications presence in Iran under the Pahlavi government, and like many American military installations abroad, the unit ran its own mess facilities using scrip rather than dollars or local currency. These internal tokens — printed on colored paper to prevent counterfeiting across denominations — kept dollar cash off the floor and simplified accounting under SOFA arrangements.
The Tehran facility closed abruptly with the 1979 revolution. Most scrip was either destroyed during withdrawal or abandoned, which accounts for the relative scarcity of intact examples today.