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5 Cents Fort Rucker
| Issuer | N.C.O. Club, Fort Rucker |
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| Year | 1955-1969 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress printed in black on beige paper with a double-rule border enclosing the issuer name and location in bold serif type at left. A red serial number appears in the lower centre panel, with a void clause at lower left. The denomination numeral and unit are set in white on a solid black block at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | N.C.O. CLUB FORT RUCKER Fort Rucker, Ala. Void if detached 5 CENTS |
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Fort Rucker, established as a permanent Army installation in Alabama in 1955, became the primary helicopter pilot training base in the United States — a role it holds to this day. N.C.O. Club scrip of this kind was part of a broader military post currency system designed to keep money circulating within the base economy, preventing local off-post spending that could drain wages from the installation's own facilities.
The fourteen-year window on this issue is wide enough that individual notes are difficult to date precisely without supplementary documentation.