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OPA WW11 RATION TOKENS

During World War II, the federal government initiated a new agency called the "Office of Price Administration." Its objectives included rationing of scarce commodities, price fixing on certain items to avoid speculation, and preventing runaway inflation during the war.
    Each household was issued ration books based on a variety of factors.  These ration booklets contained various small stamps which had no cash value, but were required to purchase food items. All store items had a price marked as well as a ration book stamp requirement. So every purchase had to also include the right number of ration stamps.
   The price of the item was not a factor in the use of these stamps. However, to make exact change, shopkeepers were issued small red and or blue tokens. They were made of a vulcanized fiber and were 16-mm in diameter. These basically were "small change" for stamps from ration books.
    The blue tokens had a value of one point and had two letters and read "OPA Blue Point 1." There are 24 different letter combinations known for the blue tokens. The red tokens similarly read "OPA Red Point 1" and came in 30 different letter combinations. Some products required red tokens in change while other products required blue tokens as change.

    These tokens were issued from 1942 to 1945 when rationing ended.
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