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1944 Geman Notes 1mark & !/2 Mark

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 Posted 10/04/2011  05:43 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Ingine to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Here are two 1944 German notes I have that have. They both have handwriting on them. One is addressed to A Sargent E.W. (something) Berger. It then has the initials G.K 5Th Int. A.P.C (or L). 360 Germany. The other is addressed to a Sargent in the U.S Army. I find these very interesting and just thought I would share. I would also be interested if anybody can read all of the handwriting, as I can't make it all out, thanks :)


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 Posted 10/04/2011  07:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They're not "addressed to", they're "signed by". Soldiers on station overseas would often take a local note and sign it, as a souvenir or memento. Sometimes, notes were signed by entire platoons or companies, and were often subsequently used in a similar fashion to modern "challenge coins". Such notes are known as "short snorters". These German AMC notes are a little too small for short snorter usage - there's not much room on them to write the names of lots of people.
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Thank you Sap for the very informative post. I now know what I'm looking at. It's even more special to me knowing it was centemental to someone once.
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