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50 Cents Navy Yard; Pearl Harbor
| Issuer | Officers' Club, Navy Yard Pearl Harbor |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue paper with black letterpress typography throughout. The denomination numeral '50' is printed in large bold type at lower left, with 'CENTS' below; 'OFFICERS' CLUB' runs across the top, and 'NAVY YARD / PEARL HARBOR' appears at center right. A cautionary legend 'Void if detached' is printed at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | OFFICERS' CLUB 50 CENTS NAVY YARD PEARL HARBOR Void if detached |
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Issued at Pearl Harbor just months after the December 1941 attack, this scrip was produced for use within the Officers' Club mess system at the Navy Yard — a controlled environment where standard U.S. currency was actively discouraged from circulating freely. The blue paper is deliberate: colored stock was a common anti-counterfeiting measure for low-denomination military scrip, making unauthorized reproduction harder with the limited equipment available locally.
Pearl Harbor facility scrip from this period was printed on-site under wartime conditions, not through any federal contract printer. Survival rates are low — these pieces were redeemed, discarded, or lost in the churn of a base operating at wartime tempo throughout 1942.