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5 Cents 7206th Support Group
| Issuer | 7206th Support Group NCO Open Mess, Athenai |
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| Year | 1955-1958 |
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| Composition | Paper (beige) |
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| Obverse description | Plain beige paper with black letterpress print. The left panel carries the issuer inscription and a red serial number below; the right panel is framed by a double-rule border enclosing the denomination numeral and unit in bold black type. The cautionary legend NOT GOOD IF DETACHED appears in italic at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | ATHENAI NCO OPEN MESS 7206 SUPPORT GP. NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 5 CENTS |
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Military payment scrip issued by the NCO Open Mess of the 7206th Support Group, a U.S. Air Force unit stationed in Athens during the mid-1950s as part of American military infrastructure supporting NATO's southern flank. These mess tokens — technically internal scrip rather than regulated Military Payment Certificates — circulated only within the confines of the mess facility itself, bypassing both Greek currency controls and the official MPC system that governed broader troop spending in the region.
Because this type of unit-level scrip had no redemption obligation beyond the issuing mess, surviving examples depend entirely on chance rather than any formal recall or destruction protocol.