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Originally Posted by WallShadow
Sounds like the "Aloha" currency printed for the Hawaiian Islands in the threat of Japanese invasion/occupation at the start of WW2.
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The Aloha printed currency was to prevent the the Japaneses from using any US currency that they found on Hawaii againist the US.
Prior to the Nixon Shock of 1971 United States was committed to backing every dollar overseas with gold. Other currencies were fixed to the dollar, and the US dollar was pegged to a fixed gold per once price.
It was the us concern that the Japanness could take very us dollar on the island and then exchange it through neutral countries for gold which they use to pay for they war againist the US.
The US at the same time also issued an order to recall all regular US paper money in the islands, save for set caps on how much money both individuals ($200) and businesses ($500; save extra currency for payroll purposes) could possess at any time. All the money on the then destory as it to expensive to ship back the CONUS. the Aloha printed currency was issued and the remaining non Aloha printed currency as destory as is made it way back to the the banks.
If Hawaii had been invade the us would delcare the money worthless and not effecting the ramaining us dollars.
In the Case of the Mount Pony Bunker is was part of the United States Federal Reserve System and houseed enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi River in the event of a catastrophic event.
The facility also housed the Culpeper Switch, which was the central switching station of the Federal Reserve's Fedwire electronic funds transfer system, which at the time connected only the Fed's member banks.
The Culpeper Switch also served as a data backup point for member banks east of the Mississippi River.
As such is was part of the US continuity of government plans, I think they use would be in use and stocked ready to go.
I seem to remember a TW V1 encounter of a national stockpile?