OPA Tokens - Red and Blue
I am always interested in buying rare OPAs!
OPA stands for Office of Price Administration
Rationing was first started in 1942. Items that were rationed include canned goods, meats, sugar, coffee, tires, gas and more.
The Office of Price Administration used OPA stamps, coins and chits for rationing.
OPA coins (commonly called OPAs) were used for change for food.
OPAs were used by retailers to give change back for food bought with ration stamps.
Blue tokens were used red tokens for meats and fats.
OPAs were first issued in 1944
Stopped being issued in 1945
Nobody has found a true reason for the letters on the OPA's. Theories include, and prevention of counterfitting.
Red letter combinations known.
HC, HT, MV, MM, TH, TY, UC, UH, UT, UV,
UX, UY, VC, VH, VT, VU, VX, VY, XC, XH,
XT, XU, XV, XY, YC, YH, YT, YU, YV, YX.
Blue letter combinations known.
CC, CH, CT, CV, CX, HH, HU, HV, HX, HY,
TC, TT, TU, TV, TX, UU, VV, WC, WH, WT,
WU, WW, XX, YY
The rarest is the red MV. The next rarest are the blue WH and then red MM and the blue WW, WC. Then blue WU,
HX and red YC, XC. The rest are fairly easy to find. Reds are a lot more common than blues.
Error OPAs are worth a little more.
There is a good example at the end of this page.
OPA tokens were used for rationing during World War II
There are 30 different red tokens and 24 blue ones.
They are all vulacanized fiber (celluloid) and 16mm in size.
Blue ones read: OPA Blue Point 1 (with two different letters)
Red ones read: OPA Red Point 1 (with two different letters)
**SPECIAL** Complete set of the above red OPAs without the MV $17.95
**SPECIAL** 50 mixed red OPAs (20+ different.) $10.00 ppd.
**SPECIAL** 250 mixed red OPAs (20+ different.) $37.50 ppd.
**SPECIAL** 1000 mixed red OPAs (All types except MV) $105.00 ppd.
BLUE OPA'S
**SPECIAL** 50 mixed blue OPAs (20+ different.) $10.00 ppd.
**SPECIAL** 250 mixed blue OPAs (20+ different.) $37.50 ppd.
Canada Meat $2.00
ERROR OPA'S
Blue CC (Minor off center) $1.50
Blue CC (Minor off center) $1.50
Blue CC (Minor off center) $1.50
Blue HY (Minor off center) $1.50
Blue HY (Off center) $5.50
BLUE UU (Off Center) (Color is somewhat faded, probably washed) $4.00
Blue VV (Minor off center) $1.50
Red HT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red UY (Minor off center) $1.50
Red UY (Minor off center) $1.50
Red VH (Minor off center) $1.50
Red VT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red VT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red VX (Minor off center) $1.50
Red XT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red XT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red XT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red XT (Minor off center) $1.50
Red XV (Minor off center) $1.50
Red YH (Minor off center) $1.50
Red YH (Minor off center) $1.50
Red YU (Minor off center) $1.50
Red YX (Minor off center) $1.50
Red ?? (Very rare - Way off center - Only the top of a R on one side by edge.
The other side is bottom of P.) $80.00
The following is an example of an error OPAs.
The pictures were sent to me by Dan Orbeck. As you can see OPAs can be struck, by mistake, more than one time. They are also not always centered when struck.The Chamanas Purple Yellow Red And Blue
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