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The top one is a Ten Sen Allied Military Currency (AMC) It was produced for the Allied Forces occupation of Japan. The dollars with Hawaii printed on them are Hawaiian emergency money. After 15 August 1942, they were the only currency that could be legally possessed on the islands. The idea being that if the the Japanese were to capture Hawaii and all the US dollars on the island, the US could just declare them all non-legal tender, thereby making them useless to the Japanese. Yours are from of the higher quantity printings, but sought-after none the less. I know I need some for my WWII collection.  |
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The One Shilling and 1/2 Shilling are Japanese Invasion Money (JIM). JIM is a very interesting and fun to collect sub-set of currency. The Japanese issued 5 different JIM currencies with corresponding block letter:
B - Burma
M - Malaya
O - Oceania
P - Philippines
S - Netherlands East Indies
There are also a small amount of surviving notes from an un-issued currency for an invasion of the USSR that never happened.
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The Philippines 1 peso note is a Victory note (obviously) from 1944. When US forces retook the Philippines from Japan they brought these notes with them.
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The Japanese note is a 50 Sen note issued on December 8th, 1942 (the 1st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack) It features the Yasukuni shrine, a shrine to war dead in Tokyo.
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The rest are pretty self explanatory, I think. Except that Grand Canyon $2. I thought it was terrible when they did that to coins...I'd never seen it done to a bill. Unbelievably hideous. I would spend the ugly thing if you can get anyone to believe it is legal tender.
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Nice collection, Newbie. It was fun to look at them all.
Schmidty thanks for all that info. Lots of stuff I never heard of!
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I was having so much fun sharing info, I forgot to say;
Nice little collection you have going there, Newbie! I also really enjoy collecting WWII era money. I just have fun and am not an expert, but if I can ever be any help, let me know.
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Schmidty'I seriously thank you for all that info. That was so much more than what a google did for me. I do seriously appreciate it. BTW If you happen to have any period paper for sale please let me know!
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Nice group of notes, and thanks for sharing.
You know, it's OK to unfold some of those folded corners.....
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Give us a sense of your specific interests and collecting goals, please!  |
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 I can't believe I'm the first one to do that...neat notes. |
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Newbie; I'm just getting back into my collection after a couple years off, so I'll have to get reacquainted with it before saying for sure. However, I am pretty sure that I have some duplicates I could part with. I know for sure that I have some extra JIM that I could let go for very little $
In the mean time, you should look for a copy of World War II Remembered: History In Your Hands by Schwan & Boling. If there were a college course on money from the WWII years, this would be the text book. It's getting dated now (1995) but it contains a wealth of info.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks for sharing. Lots of fun notes there with some great history/stories.
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 Thanks for sharing ... you have a interesting collection. |
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