Token - NAAFI Egypt

Features

Location Egypt
Type Confinement tokens › Military token
Composition Plastic
Weight 1.00 g
Diameter 26 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape Round
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
122433
References RM# T10
Richard John Marles; 2014. Collectors' British Military Money 1943-1972 (2nd revised edition). Rotographic Publications, Torquay, United Kingdom.

Obverse

NAAFI logo. Bottom legend is in Latin.

Lettering:
NAVY · ARMY & AIR FORCE· INSTITUTES·
N·A·A·F·I
SERVITOR SERVIENTIUM

Translation:
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
NAAFI
The Servants

Reverse

Lettering:
VALID IN
N·A·A·F·I· EGYPT
ONLY

Comments

Col#EGY-NAA-001

The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. It runs clubs, bars, shops, supermarkets, launderettes, restaurants, cafés and other facilities on most British military bases and also canteens on board Royal Navy ships. Commissioned officers are not usually supposed to use the NAAFI clubs and bars, since their messes provide these facilities and their entry, except on official business, is considered to be an intrusion into junior ranks' private lives.

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