How Far Back Can We Go? - With Banknotes! Third Edition

For 1945 I have two Dutch notes, 1 gulden (P-70) and 2-1/2 gulden (P-71) "coin notes". They feature a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina, who was queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She was only 10 when she became queen, though her mother served as regent until Wilhelmina turned 18.

Beautiful old Dutch notes, hokiefan!

My contributiuon for 1945 is more modest - a Hong Kong George VI 1c note!

(The reverse is blank).

a German 1944 Allied Military Issue

Germany - P# 194b - 10 Mark 1944 (PMG 66 EPQ - TOP POP)

Excellent examples!

Here are two notes for 1944. First is a Netherlands 25 gulden note, P-60. This note features "The Little Princess", an early 17th century painting by Paulus J. Moreelse, on the face as well as an elaborate geometric design on the reverse.

The other is a Netherlands 5 gulden zilverbon (silver voucher, or silver certificate), P-63. Zilverbonnen were notes which could be exchanged for silver coin at the central bank. This note came in 3 different serial number varieties; "No" with the "o" double underlined, "No" with a dot under the "o" (this example), and without "No" before the serial number.

1943 - a faded and creased French 5 Francs:


Unlike later French notes depicting historical figures, this wartime series shows typical country folk from different regions of France: a shepherd from the Pyrenees on the front and a woman from Agen on the reverse. It was a very low-value note: under the German occupation no 5-franc coins were issued: a 1941 5F coin with a portrait of Marshall Petain, struck by the Vichy French State, was withdrawn soon after issue and hardly circulated, and it wasn't until 1945 that 5-franc coins were struck again for circulation, but now in aluminium rather than nickel as they had been prior to WW2.

Nice examples!

Excellent!