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United States One Unit Gasoline A most destroyed at Pueblo Army Depot in 1984 - $15 - (Duson, LA)

1974 A Series Gasoline Ration Coupons AUCTION IS FOR ONE COUPON ONLY. UNITED STATES TOKEN COUPON GOOD FOR GASOLINE. Federal Gasoline Ration Coupon One Unit (1974) series A B & C were made. Once the energy crisis ended the Department of Energy shipped the gasoline ration coupons to the Pueblo Army Depot in Colorado, In 1984, following the belief that Washington's portrait could fool certain vending machines into mistaking the coupons for dollar bills, the federal government opted to destroy the coupons. Although the entire population of gasoline ration coupons were supposedly destroyed, someone at the Pueblo Army Depot had "rescued" a limited number of coupons for the ultimate benefit of today's collectors.

United States One Unit Gasoline A most destroyed at Pueblo Army Depot in 1984
United States One Unit Gasoline A most destroyed at Pueblo Army Depot in 1984
United States One Unit Gasoline A most destroyed at Pueblo Army Depot in 1984
United States One Unit Gasoline A most destroyed at Pueblo Army Depot in 1984
United States One Unit Gasoline A most destroyed at Pueblo Army Depot in 1984

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