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25 Cents Loring Air Force Base
| Uitgever | N.C.O. Mess, Loring Air Force Base |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1962 |
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| Valuta | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Orange stock with black letterpress text arranged in a bordered panel to the left, displaying issuer name, location, and void date; a red serial number appears at centre-left below the caveat "NOT GOOD IF DETACHED." To the right, a ruled rectangular cartouche carries the large black numeral "25" above "CENTS." |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | N. C. O. MESS LORING AIR FORCE BASE LIMESTONE, MAINE VOID AFTER 27 AUG. 1962 NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 25 CENTS |
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| Opmerkingen |
Loring Air Force Base sat on the northernmost edge of Maine, close enough to the Canadian border that it was one of SAC's primary forward staging posts during the Cold War. NCO mess scrip like this note circulated entirely within the base perimeter — legal off the books, ignored by the Treasury, and redeemable only at the issuing facility. The practical logic was sound: scrip kept hard currency on base and complicated any black-market leakage into the surrounding civilian economy.
1962 puts this squarely in the tensest stretch of the Cuban Missile Crisis period. Loring was an active B-52 base at the time.