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5 Cents Chaklala Garrison
| Issuer | Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Pakistan |
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| Year | 1954-1959 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | MAAG NCO Salateen Merchandise Only 5 CENTS |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper reverse with no text, vignette, or security device. |
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MAAG voucher currency occupied a strange legal and logistical middle ground. These garrison notes were issued for use within the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group compound at Chaklala — the air base outside Rawalpindi — and were never intended to circulate among the Pakistani public. They functioned as internal scrip, insulating on-base transactions from the local economy and controlling dollar outflow during a period when American military presence in Pakistan was expanding rapidly under the SEATO and bilateral defense agreements of the mid-1950s.
The Chaklala series is among the less-documented MAAG scrip issues from the region. Attribution and print run data remain incomplete in most major references.