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5 Cents Military Payment Certificate
| Emittent | United States Department of Defense |
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| Jahr | 1958-1961 |
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| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Purple and green note with a laureate female bust vignette at left within scrollwork cartouche, set against a fine guilloche underprint. Denomination numeral '5' appears in each corner; serial number and 'SERIES 541' at right. Restricting legend printed along lower border. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenlegende | MILITARY PAYMENT CERTIFICATE 5 CENTS FOR USE ONLY IN UNITED STATES MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS — BY UNITED STATES AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS. |
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| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Anmerkungen |
Military Payment Certificates were issued to U.S. service personnel stationed overseas as a tool to control black market currency operations — converting local economies running on dollars into ones running on scrip that could be called in and replaced overnight. Series 541, to which this note belongs, was introduced in 1958 and remained in circulation until May 1961, when it was abruptly replaced by Series 591 in a single-day conversion exercise designed to strand anyone holding MPC illegally.
Those conversion days — "C-Days" — were conducted without advance notice, often over a matter of hours, leaving black marketeers and unauthorized holders with worthless paper by nightfall.