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5 Cents Arlington Hall Station
| Issuer | N.C.O. Open Mess, Arlington Hall Station |
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| Year | 1950-1969 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Yellow stock with black letterpress print throughout. Text block at left identifies the issuing mess and location; a bold boxed numeral '5' with 'CENTS' below appears at right. Red serial number printed in the lower left field. |
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| Obverse lettering | N.C.O. OPEN MESS Arlington Hall Station Arlington, Virginia 5 CENTS |
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Arlington Hall Station in Arlington, Virginia, served as a major U.S. Army signals intelligence facility from 1942 onward — eventually becoming a primary site for the Armed Forces Security Agency and later the NSA's predecessor operations. The NCO Open Mess scrip issued there functioned as internal currency, restricting purchasing power to on-post facilities and preventing cash from circulating off a classified installation.
Yellow paper was a common color-coding convention in military scrip series to distinguish denominations at a glance. The specific printer for Arlington Hall mess scrip has not been firmly established in the literature.