THE SOCIETY OF RATION TOKEN COLLECTORS

I read with interest, the featured web page: OPA Tokens. There is a club named "The Society of Ration Token Collectors (SRTC) that was established in 1966 of which I am president. We are a member club of both TAMS and ANA and will be celebrating our 50th anniversary next year. While the name of our club denotes tokens, we study the entire area of rationing that was in place during WWII. The area covers Food, Gasoline, Automobiles, Bicycles, Typewriters, Stoves, Shoes and many other commodities. Tokens were introduced on February 27, 1944 to be used as change when all ration stamps were validated for 10 points.

Membership dues are only $12 for quarterly publications and periodic auctions of ration material for members only. We publish a CD on WWII Rationing which includes known material from Canada and Newfoundland as well. It currently has over 2,100 pages of information and illustrations. Priced at $12 for members or $24 for non members (which includes a 1 year membership). Interested persons can contact me at: DKolkman@AOL.com

While the introduction of Mr. Cekola's book is very informative regarding the scarcity of certain tokens, I must disagree that the red "MV" is Ultra Rare; it is extremely scarce and certainly the key in the set, but there are several hundred known. He also states that the red "MM" is considered Rare, but it can be easily found. Also stated is that the blue "WC" is considered Ultra Rare, Again it is very scarce and is the key of the blues and probably the second key to the entire set, but it can be found.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
FEATURED WEB PAGE: OPA TOKENS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n44a44.html)

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