5 Cent Amersfoort; Prins Willem III Kazerne

Military mess tokens in paper form are unusual enough; a cavalry mess issuing its own fractional scrip in postwar Netherlands is genuinely rare. The Prins Willem III Kazerne in Amersfoort was a major Dutch cavalry garrison, and small-denomination canteen notes like this one circulated exclusively within the mess to handle low-value transactions — beer, coffee, minor purchases — where coin shortages or simple accounting convenience made internal scrip practical. Drukkerij B. Kramer was a local Amersfoort printer, not a security press, which shows in the modest production values typical of Dutch military canteen issues of the period.