This rare, historic emergency scrip was used during the 1956 Suez Crisis by the United Nations Emergency Force. It was created for UNEF peacekeepers to trade at camp stores in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
A booklet of these scrips was listed at a Spink London auction in April 2013, but the lot went unsold. The auction catalog said the tickets were printed by the Globe ticket company in Philadelphia.
Spink wrote about the piece, “a most unusual item, presumably for use in the NAAFI or similar by French and British forces during the Suez crisis.”
A reader reported that the scrip was not used by British and French forces, since they were not part of the UNEF. Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt in 1956 and were not part of the peacekeeping forces. The peacekeepers came from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, India, Indonesia, Norway, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. The reader reported the scrip was used by Canadian forces in their canteens.
The UNEF was deployed as a response to the Suez Crisis and to maintain peace between Egypt and Israel. It was conceived by UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and Canadian Minister Lester B. Pearson, who would later win the Nobel Peace Prize for his effort.
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