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25 Cents Lincoln Air Force Base
| Issuer | Officers' Open Mess, Lincoln Air Force Base |
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| Year | 1954-1966 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on beige paper in black ink, with the issuer's name and location set in bold block type within a plain rectangular border. A separate ruled panel at right carries the denomination numeral "25" over "CENTS" in large bold type. The red serial number is printed in the lower centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | OFFICERS' OPEN MESS LINCOLN A. F. B. LINCOLN, NEBR. NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 25 CENTS |
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Officers' Open Mess scrip from Lincoln Air Force Base belongs to a category of military payment instruments that operated entirely outside federal monetary law — issued by the mess fund itself, accepted only within the facility, and backed by nothing more than institutional trust. Lincoln AFB was a Strategic Air Command base, home to B-47 Stratojet wings during much of this scrip's active period, and the mess operated under tight SAC discipline that extended even to how officers settled their bar tabs.
These local scrip issues were never catalogued systematically during their circulation life. Most were discarded when a base closed or converted — Lincoln was deactivated in 1966 — which accounts for the relative scarcity of surviving pieces across the entire denomination run.