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25 Cents Vint Hill Farms Station; Officers' Open Mess
| Issuer | Officers' Open Mess, Vint Hill Farms Station |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Protection type | Perforation |
| Protection description | A row of punch-hole perforations runs vertically through the note, serving as a cancellation or detachment control strip. |
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Vint Hill Farms Station in Warrenton, Virginia was a signals intelligence facility — one of the Army's key SIGINT intercept stations during the war, activated in 1942. Like other restricted military installations, it operated its own scrip economy to prevent U.S. currency from circulating off-base or falling into hands that shouldn't have it. The Officers' Open Mess scrip was specific to that social tier; enlisted men had no access to it.
The perforation security feature on these mess notes is the detail worth noting — a physical cancellation method used when the note was redeemed or withdrawn, leaving a distinctive punched pattern that most surviving examples bear.